Understanding the evolutionary bases of workplace mobbing behavior: a bio-psycho-social model

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Chapter 2 in Human Resource Management and Evolutionary Psychology, 2019, pp 11-29 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the phenomenon of workplace mobbing behavior through the lenses of evolutionary psychology. It offers a theoretical framework that explains mobbing aggression at work. The chapter first defines workplace mobbing. It then articulates an ethological theory of mobbing behavior in the animal kingdom. It is argued that mobbing is a natural biological response to a threatening environment. The survival instinct explains how once “good†colleagues and friends can suddenly turn on the victim, unleashing a primal response aimed at the complete elimination of the threat from the workplace.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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