Gender and the dysfunctional workplace

Introduction / Suzy Fox and Terri R. Lituchy -- 1. Gender and sex differences in the forms of workplace aggression / Joel H. Neuman -- 2. Gender differences in aggression and counterproductive work behavior / Paul E. Spector -- 3. The role of gender and attributional style in counterproductive aggre...

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Main Author: Fox, S.
Other Authors: Lituchy, T. R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham Edward Elgar 2012
Series:New horizons in management series
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Introduction / Suzy Fox and Terri R. Lituchy -- 1. Gender and sex differences in the forms of workplace aggression / Joel H. Neuman -- 2. Gender differences in aggression and counterproductive work behavior / Paul E. Spector -- 3. The role of gender and attributional style in counterproductive aggressive work behaviors / Jeremy Mackey and Mark J. Martinko -- 4. Priming, painting, peeling, and polishing : constructing and deconstructing the woman-bullying-woman identity at work / Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Elizabeth A. Dickinson and Karen A. Foss -- 5. Workplace bullying and gender : it's complicated / Loraleigh Keashly -- 6. The so-called "equal opportunity bully"'s effect on women in the workplace / Kerri Lynn Stone -- 7. Selective incivility : gender, race, and the discriminatory workplace / Dana Kabat-Farr and Lilia M. Cortina -- 8. Observing sexual harassment at work : a gendered extension of a gendered construct / Tara C. Reich and M. Sandy Hershcovis -- 9. Sexual orientation harassment : an integrative review with directions for future research / Shaun Pichler -- 10. Sex or gender? : the enigma of women's elevated absenteeism / Eric Patton and Gary Johns -- 11. Occupational mental health : a study of nurses in Argentina / Terri R. Lituchy ... [et al.] -- 12. Job attitudes in an anglophone Caribbean country : the case of Barbados / Betty Jane Punnett ... [et al.]
Dysfunction in the workplace, like a bully culture, affects women and men differently. This book represents a broad spectrum of disciplines including law, management, communications, human resource management and industrial/organizational psychology and offers integrative, cross-disciplinary inquiries into the many roles gender plays in organizational dysfunction. The authors provoke new questions and new streams of research, with the ultimate goal of contributing to healthier workplaces for men and women alike
Physical Description:xiv, 191 p ill
ISBN:9780857932594
0857932594
9780857932600