Social Undermining in the Workplace

Unlike aggressive, violent, and abusive workplaces, where the intent to cause harm is apparent, incivility takes on more ambiguous forms, where the perceptions of the instigator, target, and observer(s), must factor together to determine intent (Andersson, 1999). General incivility, as a primary precursor to a toxic workplace, can be described as rude behavior, or a disregard for others within the organization, stemming from a lack of recognition, or ignorance, of co-workers emotions and values, often taking form in deviance as a protest of dissatisfaction (Kelloway, 2010), and leads to a downward spiral of malcontent. Pearson classifies Incivility as “Low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm” stemming from “Anti-social behavior in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect”.Despite the intent, or lack thereof, the effects of incivility in the workplace are strictly damaging, and as such, must be addressed before spiraling out of control. Examples of workplace incivility include ignoring advice and belittling ideas, lack of active listening, taking credit for shared work and public criticism or insults (Johnson, 2001). Even negative

An additional dreadful, rude, disturbing experience that I frequently encounter because of this force and their perverse doctrine is my frequently dismissals from local stores. Once more you perhaps are pondering thinking What! How and what exactly entails your experience of being thrown out of stores. Precisely yet again let me recall tpo your attention that this force at all times claim that every occurence that transpires is associated with some propose, growth or fruit. However once more that as well is completely false their initial, primary intent is to disarm, control and ultimately ruins one day by causing anger, disappointment. Thus when I go into many stores they at all times are attempting to see how they can disarm and cause anger

Give examples of how the Behaviour and actions of individuals could affect others within the workplace.

Hatred in the work environment breeds various issues for workers. For example, representatives working in a negative situation will probably discover issues with confidence and low profitability. Also, a negative work environment can prompt high representative turnover rates. To build energy in the work environment, workers must to make a positive workplace and do what it takes to maintain and cultivate this culture. According to Yoder-wise (2011), “the definition of violence includes overt and covert behavior ranging from offensive threatening language to homicide” (Yoder Wise, 2011, p.498). Violence can be noted as the general term that represents lateral aggression,

So my norm violation will revolve around the work I do. Currently I am a Regional Safety Manager for a company named Hydrochem. As a safety manager, it is my job to make sure everyone has the knowledge, tools, protective equipment and training needed to perform their job safely.

Sexism, is a prejudice plain and simple. One of the earliest forms of violence directed toward women was the Witch Hunt Trials of the Middle Ages. Bishops debated whether a woman was really human at all. If her nose were too long, she had red hair, a humped back, or if she was exceptionally beautiful, she was thought to be a witch and was burned at the stake. There was an estimated nine million women burned during the Witch Trials. During the “Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1960’s, feminist theorists explained that oppression of women was widespread in nearly all human society, and spoke of sexism instead of male chauvinism. Male chauvinists were usually individual men who expressed the belief that they were superior to women” (Napikoski). By the mid 20th century sexism was established and began to appear in advertising. Between the 1970’s and 1990’s women began to feel more equal to men until the 1980’s where they were portrayed as sex symbols on national television (The Origin and History of SEXISM). There are two main types of sexism, benevolent and hostile, and their definitions are opposite from one another. Hostile sexism is what most people perceive as sexism today as it seems sexism is occurring more and more often and is, notably, more vulgar. It is the notion that women are inferior or not as worthy; a belief that males are intrinsically superior. For many years women have been degraded and looked down upon with the idea that their place is in the kitchen with

I have never worked in an environment where there was a diverse group of ethnical backgrounds. However, I did work for a company who used a company in India to handle basic customer service components. Despite the fact that I never came into direct contact with these people there were times I made stereotypical comments. Communication seemed to be the worst part about the integration and continued to be a problem for the remainder of the time I was employed with this company. Stereotyping can be productive only if it is handled in a positive manner (Cardon, 2013). Positive stereotyping would consist of approachable people who are willing and eager to learn about different cultures. It is normal for people to approach a situation with a somewhat

This study showed how individuals in a team, witnessed or experienced interpersonal aggression. The main areas that this study was based on was interpersonal aggression and team diversity. Interpersonal aggression is described to be humiliating, denigrating or ignoring a colleague which can take a significant toll on or at the workplace. Studies have shown that employees that go through interpersonal aggression show signs at their workplace, such as health problems, job dissatisfaction and maybe even distress. The purpose of this study was to understand when this aggression occurs, how and why interpersonal aggression occurs. The place that this study was observed by is the workplace of the participants along with its diversity team.

up where they left off the year before, winning many games early in the year. Once the playoffs came a ‘thunderbolt’ hit as well. A ‘thunderbolt’ is something that is beyond our control, a phenomenon that one day strikes your team/business. The ‘thunderbolt’ that hindered the Lakers was the injury bug. The Lakers lost their Rookie of the Year James Worthy, the defensive anchor Bob McAdoo, and their lights out shooter Norm Nixon. After losing three key role players, it is easy for a team to feel sympathetic in the midst of a title run. But sympathy is the junk food of the soul, it contains nothing uplifting and ultimately is a negative emotion. A winning team prepares itself for the adversity it is certain to encounter along the way to success. Adversity should almost be welcomed because it forces the team to remain uncomfortable, which is when the most growth is seen. “It is the combination of hardiness and ability to grasp context

What would you do if you were the victim? Where would you go for help?

People who conduct themselves inappropriately and illegally online ruin their chances for a job, and it’s only safe that the business have access to the offender’s accounts to keep their company and the people involved safe, and to avoid people that could ruin their business.

Being able to gain trust from one person is a difficult task, coming from another unit and being able to gain the trust of a team that has already been formed is even harder. Having a incident like sexual harassment and sexual gestures happen within the unit can have demoralizing effects on the effectiveness of the team. The hostile working environment may hinder some hard-working soldiers and cause them to not give maximum effort. It may also make the victim(s) feel as if they are not appreciated and their performance may reflect their recent feelings towards the situation. Also these negative actions may cause a fellow soldier to relive a certain situation that happened to them previously.

I think of myself as an extrovert as well as a people pleaser. I feed off spreading happiness to others and I enjoy helping people get to better places. There are not many people who personally care about anyone they encounter. A buddhist quote i like states "The greatest quality is seeking to serve others". All my life i have respected every individual wether its a homeless man on the street or a teacher in the classroom. I believe I complement any environment i am placed in because i have the ability to empathize with others. I crave the knowledge that is able to be gained from different perspectives. Through the club Interact i was able to meet many people from all different backgrounds and at the same time I was giving back with actions

Heeman, V. (2007). Workplace Bullying: A Distinct, Interpersonal, and Communicative Phenomenon. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association.

Altemeyer believed that these three components are thoroughly intertwined and wrote the items for his scale without trying to create separate sets of items for each component (Altemeyer, 1996). This scale has gained great popularity. However, one shortcoming of the scale is that it does not provide separate scores for the three components of the construct (Duckitt, Bizumic, Krauss, & Heled, 2010; Funke, 2005). In organizational context, employees with high RWA might create negative attitude towards co-employees seen as threatening in the workplace’s structure and order that defy the authorities values (Asbrock, Sibley, & Duckitt, 2010; Dallago et al., 2012; Dru, 2007; Shaffer & Duckitt, 2013; Sibley, Wilson, & Duckitt,