Eating their cake and everyone else's cake, too: Resources as the main ingredient to workplace bullying

Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R.B. Halbesleben and Kristen Shanine

Business Horizons, 2010, vol. 53, issue 6, 553-560

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.

Keywords: Bullying; Resources; Gain; cycles; Loss; cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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