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An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind: Conflict Escalation into Workplace Bullying and the Role of Distributive Conflict Behavior

verfasst von: Elfi Baillien, Jeroen Camps, Anja Van den Broeck, Jeroen Stouten, Lode Godderis, Maarten Sercu, Hans De Witte

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 2/2016

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The current study investigated how work-related disagreements—coined as conflicts—relate to workplace bullying, from the perspective of the target as well as the perpetrator. We hypothesized a positive indirect association between task conflicts and bullying through relationship conflicts. This process accounted for both for targets and perpetrators of bullying. Targets are distinguished from perpetrators in our assumption that this indirect effect is boosted by distributive conflict behavior, being yielding for targets and forcing for perpetrators. Results in a large representative sample of the Flemish working population (N = 2,029) confirmed our hypotheses. Additionally, our study also revealed a direct effect from task conflicts to bullying in the analyses regarding the indirect as well as the conditional indirect effects. For perpetrators, both the indirect and direct relationships are moderated by forcing, underlining the importance of distributive conflict behavior particularly for the enactment of bullying behaviors.

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As the macro developed by Hayes (2013) does not allow calculating changes in R² for interactions when heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors are used, we report the ∆R² values regarding hypotheses 3 and 4 based on the regression results obtained without heteroscedasticity-consistent standard errors.

Notably, additional analyses in which we tested whether forcing moderated the association between relationship conflict and being a target of workplace bullying and whether yielding moderated the association between relationship conflict and being a perpetrator of workplace bullying, did not reveal any significant interaction effects. Results are available from the first author upon request.

Note that this criterion has only been developed for targets. We also applied it to perpetrators in view of having some preliminary ideas.

Results are available upon request from the first author

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Titel: An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind: Conflict Escalation into Workplace Bullying and the Role of Distributive Conflict Behavior
verfasst von: Elfi Baillien
Jeroen Camps
Anja Van den Broeck
Jeroen Stouten
Lode Godderis
Maarten Sercu
Hans De Witte
Publikationsdatum: 08.02.2015
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2563-y

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