Eating their cake and everyone else's cake, too: Resources as the main ingredient to workplace bullying
This article examines workplace bullying from a personal resources perspective. As workplace bullying emerges in unsupportive and stressful work environments, the threat of personal resource loss triggers the low cost, high reward resource-seeking behaviors that are typically reported as indicative of bullies in the workplace bullying research. Herein, we propose that these resource-seeking bullying behaviors allow bullies to create reinforcing resource gain cycles for them, but also create reinforcing resource loss cycles for targets and bystanders of bullying. As a potential remedy, we discuss recommendations for organizations to reduce the occurrence of workplace bullying.
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2010
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Authors: | Wheeler, Anthony R. ; Halbesleben, Jonathon R.B. ; Shanine, Kristen |
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Business Horizons. - Elsevier, ISSN 0007-6813. - Vol. 53.2010, 6, p. 553-560
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Elsevier |
Keywords: | Bullying Resources Gain cycles Loss cycles |
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