Why victims of undermining at work become perpetrators of undermining: An integrative model

• Main Authors: LEE, Ki Young, KIM, Eugene, BHAVE, Devasheesh P., DUFFY, Michelle K.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Interpersonal justice; Moral disengagement; Moral identity; Resource depletion; Social undermining; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5151; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6150/viewcontent/VictimsUnderminingWork_Model_2016.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We develop and test an integrative model explaining why victims of workplace social undermining become perpetrators of undermining. Conceptualizing social undermining as a norm-violating and a resource-depleting experience, we theorize that undermining victimization lowers interpersonal justice perc...