Publications by authors named "Manuela Priesemuth"
Third parties have increasingly become the focus of research on mistreatment in organizations. Much of that work is grounded in deonance theory, which argues that third parties should react to the perpetrators of mistreatment with anger. Deonance theory is less explicit as to how third parties should react to the victims of mistreatment, though empirical work has pointed to empathy as one potential reaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch and the media demonstrate the profound impact hostile work environments have on organizations and their members. Often, the term "toxic work climate" is used to describe patterns of aggressive behaviors that harm individuals and manifest in the broader workplace. However, despite these common references, scholars still know relatively little about what a toxic work climate actually entails, the processes by which they emerge, and their influence on organizational outcomes.
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- The paper explores how abusive supervisors react to their own harmful behavior, moving beyond just the impact on victims.
- It suggests that abusive actions can lower a supervisor's sense of social worth, which affects their job performance and may lead them to stop future abusive behavior.
- The study finds that this effect is more pronounced in supervisors with lower levels of psychopathy, who are more likely to change their behavior than those with higher psychopathy, who might continue being abusive.