What Goes Around Comes Around: How Perpetrators of Workplace Bullying Become Targets Themselves
Ivana Vranješ; Tinne Vander Elst; Yannick Griep; Hans De Witte; Elfi Baillien · 2022 · Group & Organization Management
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Abstract
In this study, we investigated whether and how perpetrators of bullying become targets themselves. Building on the notion of bullying as an escalation process and the Conservation of Resources Theory, we hypothesized that following enactment of bullying, people would experience increased relationship conflicts with colleagues, diminishing their sense of control and making them more likely to become exposed to bullying themselves. We tested this idea using longitudinal sequential mediated Structural Equation Modelling in a sample of 1420 Belgian workers. Our results confirmed that enactment of
Abstract by Ivana Vranješ; Tinne Vander Elst; Yannick Griep; Hans De Witte; Elfi Baillien, Group & Organization Management (2022) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1177/10596011221143263