1st Edition

Dark Sides of Organizational Life Hostility, Rivalry, Gossip, Envy and other Difficult Behaviors

Edited By H. Cenk Sözen, H. Nejat Basım Copyright 2023
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more

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.