Workplace bullying and employee outcomes: a moderated mediated model

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between workplace bullying and employee outcomes in a healthcare setting. Drawing on HR process theory, we investigate the mediating role of the perceived effectiveness of implementation of anti-bullying practices on employee outcomes and whether targeted line manager training was a moderator of that relationship. Our multi-level analysis (utilising responses from 1507 employees within 47 hospitals with matched HR Director interviews), finds that the relationship between workplace bullying and employee outcomes is partially mediated by employees’ perceived effective implementation of intended anti-bully practices. The mediated relationship is moderated by targeted line manager training in anti-bullying practices. The mediated moderation model illustrates that it is effective implementation of anti-bullying practices enhanced by targeted training that is required to reduce bullying probabilities and their associated negative employee outcomes. The paper contributes to resource based view of the firm, HR process and human capital theories. The implications for future research and practice are discussed.     

Workplace contextual supports for LGBT employees: A review,meta‐analysis,and agenda for future research

The past decade has witnessed a rise in the visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. This has resulted in some organizational researchers focusing their attention on workplace issues facing LGBT employees. While empirical research has been appropriately focused on examining the impact of workplace factors on the work lives of LGBT individuals, no research has examined these empirical relationships cumulatively. The purpose of this study was to conduct a comprehensive review and meta‐analysis of the outcomes associated with three workplace contextual supports (formal LGBT policies and practices, LGBT‐supportive climate, and supportive workplace relationships) and to compare the relative influence of these workplace supports on outcomes. Outcomes were grouped into four categories: (a) work attitudes, (b) psychological strain, (c) disclosure, and (d) perceived discrimination. Results show that supportive workplace relationships were more strongly related to work attitudes and strain, whereas LGBT supportive climate was more strongly related to disclosure and perceived discrimination compared to the other supports. Our findings also revealed a number of insights concerning the measurement, research design, and sample characteristics of the studies in the present review. Based on these results, we offer an agenda for future research.     

The legal implications of workplace smoking policies

Smoking in the workplace has become a difficult and complex legal issue. Both smoking and nonsmoking employees have used various legal bases in their attempts to enforce their rights. An analysis of the reported legal decisions indicates that the trend is in favor of limiting the rights of smokers. As nonsmokers become more aggressive in their demands for a smoke-free environment, it will become increasingly important for employers to be well apprised of the legal implications associated with smoking in the workplace.     

高职院校公共英语教学中引入职场英语的策略分析

为提高高职院校公共英语的教学质量,摒除传统英语教学的诸多弊端,引入基于岗位工作过程来设计的职场英语教学势在必行。它能极大提高学生的学习积极性,使学习者在用中学,学中用,融"教、学、做"为一体。本文从转变教学理念、更新教学内容、提高教学能力、改进教学方法和手段、创建职场英语教学环境等方面讨论了如何引入职场英语教学体系。     

Playing at the queer edges

Through autoethnography, queer theory and edgework, I examine Wild Ginger Witchcamp, an annual five‐day event where one hundred or so people gather to celebrate shared politics, spirituality and environmental concerns. I include narratives of lived experience, woven and layered into the text to illuminate the complex realities of leisure that extends beyond resisting the normative to one of the nurturing alternatives. The social health of a community depends on the community’s ability to publicly affirm itself, and it is critical that a community find a way to transmit and transform its culture. Queer theory, the related constructs of heteronormativity and counterpublics, along with edgework, can help us understand the importance of communal and culturally relevant leisure particularly for individuals and communities that do not see themselves reflected in the dominant culture.     

职场孤独感与科研人员工匠精神：过犹不及还是每况愈下？

当前,学术界对职场孤独感的探讨主要关注其（潜在）消极后果,对如何正确看待和应对职场孤独感的研究还非常有限,对其缺乏全面、深入与准确的认识,特别是在其正向结果层面。本研究以资源保存理论为研究基础,利用包括高校、科研院所和科技型企业研发部门在内的374份科研人员调研数据开展实证研究,探讨职场孤独感对科研人员工匠精神的影响及其作用机制。研究结果表明：职场孤独感对科研人员的工匠精神和职业生涯韧性均有倒U型影响,职业生涯韧性在职场孤独感和科研人员工匠精神的关系中起中介作用;关系型心理契约不仅正向调节职业生涯韧性和科研人员工匠精神之间关系,而且还正向调节职业生涯韧性在职场孤独感影响科研人员工匠精神关系中的中介作用。研究结论揭示了职场孤独感影响科研人员工匠精神的作用机制和边界条件,识别出职场孤独感的正向激励作用,具有较高的创新意义,并对从资源保存理论视角来理解职场孤独感如何正向影响工匠精神提供了有益参考。     

工作场所隐私缺失会导致工作脱离行为吗？——一项基于情感事件理论的研究

越来越多的企业开始采用开放式和共享式的办公空间设计,而开放式和共享式办公空间设计导致的一个关键问题就是办公场所隐私缺失。本研究基于情感事件理论,通过对210名员工进行时间间隔为两周的两阶段问卷调查,探析了工作场所隐私缺失会怎样通过消极情绪影响到员工的工作脱离行为。最终我们得到的研究结果表明：工作场所隐私缺失会对员工的工作脱离行为产生显著的正向影响,消极情绪在两者之间发挥部分中介作用。此外,控制点调节了工作场所隐私缺失与消极情绪之间的关系：相较于内控制点个体,外控制点个体更容易受到工作场所隐私缺失的消极影响,其消极情绪的增加更为明显,对工作脱离行为的影响也更强烈。     

“We do not hire smokers”: May employers discriminate against smokers?

Smoking employees are less healthy than nonsmokers, are absent more, make more and more expensive claims for health and disability benefits, and endanger co-workers who breathe smoky air. Employers may establish smoke-free workplaces, but—beyond that—employers may absolutely discriminate against smokers. Absent some common-law or statutory prohibition, employers are free to hire whomever they wish. The Americans with Disability Act prohibits discrimination against “disabled” applicants or employees, but smokers are not “disabled,” nor “regarded as” being disabled. Moreover, statutory construction does not lead to the conclusion that smokers are “disabled.” Since the policy of government is to discourage smoking, and discrimination against smokers promotes nonsmoking, such discrimination is not only not illegal, it is good social policy.     

Comparisons and Contrasts Between Elementary/Primary ’School Situated Design’ and ’Workplace Design’ in Canada and England

There is a lack of evidence that examines, together, the triad of how teachers in elementary/primary schools are translating curriculum requirements for teaching design, within technology frameworks, in their classrooms, how their students then proceed with design, and how ’school situated design’ relates to ’workplace design’. This paper explores the relationships between designerly thinking and behaviours situated in classrooms and in the workplace, beliefs about how designing is learned in schools and in the ’real world’, and children’s, teachers’ and designers’ understanding of design. These are be illustrated by extracts from interviews with teachers, children and designers and evidence of designing in classrooms and in the workplace. Similarities and differences between evidence from ’school situated design’ and ’workplace design’ and from Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) are discussed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Maximizing Human Potential: Capabilities Theory and the Professional Work Environment

Human capabilities theory has emerged as an important framework for measuring whether various social systems promote human flourishing. The premise of this theory is that human beings share some nearly universal capabilities; what makes a human life fulfilling is the opportunity to exercise these capabilities. This essay proposes that the use of human capabilities theory can be expanded to assess whether a company has organized the work environment in such a way that allows workers to develop a variety of human capabilities. This mode of analysis is put forward as a complement to the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who has suggested that the key to promoting human well-being in the workplace is the maximization of flow experiences.