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The Occurrence of Bullying in Global Organizations: A Model and Issues Associated With Social/Emotional Contagion
Author(s) -
Harvey Michael,
Treadway Darren C.,
Heames Joyce T.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00271.x
Subject(s) - emotional contagion , psychology , embodied cognition , workplace bullying , social psychology , phenomenon , diversity (politics) , element (criminal law) , sociology , political science , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , anthropology
Workplace bullying in global organizations occurs for several reasons, including growing diversity, increased dispersion of employees in geographic locations, lack of experience of managers with new environments, and varying requirements. To gain insight into the bullying phenomenon, one must examine the characteristics of the bully, the target of bullying activities (e.g., the victim or the bullied), observers of the bullying (e.g., bystanders), and resulting changes in the organizational culture because of the bullying. One additional element to be assessed is the means by which bullying activities are embodied in an organization's culture (i.e., social/emotional contagion). This paper proposes a model of bullying in global organizations and examines the potential of social/emotional contagion developing in global organizations’ cultures.