Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1014340 | Business Horizons | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
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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Authors
Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R.B. Halbesleben, Kristen Shanine,