1st Edition
Dark Sides of Organizational Life Hostility, Rivalry, Gossip, Envy and other Difficult Behaviors
Exploring the darkest side of organizations may have a potential to change our previous assumptions about business life. Scholars both in management and organizational research fields have shown interest in the "bright" side of behavioral life and have looked for the ways to create a positive organizational climate and assumed a positive relation between happiness of employees and productivity. These main assumptions of the Human Relations School have dominated the scientific inquiry on organizational behavior. However, "the dark side of organizational life" may have more explanatory power than "the bright side". Hostility, jealousy, envy, rivalry, gossip, problematic personalities, dislike, revenge, and social exclusion are the realities of business life. A manager may devote most of their time to cope with conflicts, deviant behaviors, ambitious individuals, gossips, and dysfunctional rivalry among employees. It is evident that negative events and interactions among employees cost more time and energy for a manager than the positive side of organizational life. This edited collection specifically focuses on these issues and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of management, organizational studies and behavior, sociology, social psychology, and human resource management.
Chapter 1. Nepotism
Mehmet Ali Ekemen
Chapter 2. Mobbing
Tahir Yeşi̇lada
Chapter 3. Dysfunctional Conflict: Antecedents and Outcomes
Hakan Karabacak, Ünsal Siğri and Kadir Varoğlu
Chapter 4. Burnout Syndrome
Ufuk Başar
Chapter 5. Psychological Harassment at Work
Harun Şeşen, Ahmet Maşlakçi and Lütfi Sürücü
Chapter 6. The Glass Ceiling
Gözde İnal-Cavlan and Şenay Sahil Ertan
Chapter 7. Organizational Silence
Murat Güler and Metin Ocak
Chapter 8. Understanding Alienation
Meral Kızrak, Hakan Turgut, and İsmail Tokmak
Chapter 9. Counterproductive Aspects of Teamwork
Meral Kızrak and Alperen Öztürk
Biography
H. Cenk Sözen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at Başkent University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Management, Ankara,
H. Nejat Basım, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at Başkent University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Management, Ankara, Turkey.