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Workplace Harassment: The Social Costs Of Bullying, Andra Gumbus, Bridget M. Lyons
Workplace Harassment: The Social Costs Of Bullying, Andra Gumbus, Bridget M. Lyons
WCBT Faculty Publications
Most research on workplace bullying uses survey results to understand working conditions, target and bully characteristics, and results of bullying situations. This study uses content analysis to determine themes emerging from a writing assignment that asks students to respond to questions about workplace bullying. The intent of the research is to enable bullying targets to better understand the situation, to help managers to learn how to mitigate possible bullying situations, and to assist witnesses to better react to workplace incidents.
What The Person Brings To The Table: Personality, Coping, And Work–Family Conflict, Jeanine K. Andreassi
What The Person Brings To The Table: Personality, Coping, And Work–Family Conflict, Jeanine K. Andreassi
WCBT Faculty Publications
Employees (N = 291) of various industries and companies were surveyed to study how individual factors (coping and personality) affect work–family conflict: strain-based work-to-family conflict (S-WFC), time-based work-to-family conflict (T-WFC), strain-based family-to-work conflict (S-FWC), and time-based family-to-work conflict (T-FWC). As expected, passive coping was related to significantly higher levels of S-WFC, S-FWC, and T-FWC. Unexpectedly, active coping was related to higher levels of S-WFC. As hypothesized, social support coping was negatively related to work–family conflict, but only for T-WFC. Venting was positively related to S-WFC. As predicted, neuroticism was positively related to S-WFC, T-WFC, and S-FWC. Passive coping mediated …