Workplace harassment from the victim's perspective: a theoretical model and meta-analysis.
Although workplace harassment affects the lives of many employees, until recently it has been relatively ignored in the organizational psychology literature. First, the authors introduced an attribution- and reciprocity-based model that explains the link between harassment and its potential causes and consequences. The authors then conducted a meta-analysis to examine the potential antecedents and consequences of workplace harassment. As shown by the meta-analysis, both environmental and individual difference factors potentially contributed to harassment and harassment was negatively related to the well-being of both individual employees and their employing organizations. Furthermore, harassment contributed to the variance in many outcomes, even after controlling for 2 of the most commonly studied occupational stressors, role ambiguity and role conflict.
Bowling
Nathan A
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Department of Psychology, Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA. psybowling@yahoo.com
Beehr
Terry A
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D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001290:Attitude; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011582:Psychological Theory; D017406:Sexual Harassment / Q000523:psychology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*