Abstract
The existence of unpleasant colleagues; those who enjoy making other people’s life miserable by discriminating and abusing their power, or hostile colleagues who are expert at oppressing others at the workplace are frequent challenges nowadays. Previous research on hostile work environment has narrowed its boundaries by portraying heavily from psychological and social-psychological viewpoints. The literature has documented a lot of adverse mental health consequences of hostile work environment. The purpose of this study is to discuss the nature of hostile work environment and its damaging effects on individuals and the organization, and the approaches to handle such undesirable environment. In addition, this study aims to examine the progressions by which the victims who experience the ongoing emotional trauma in response to the hostile work environment. The design of this study was in dept semi-structured interview with the critical perspectives. This study first identifies the phenomenon of hostile environment such as incivility and injustice at the workplace and then interviews the victims of their experiences
Metadata
Item Type: | Student Project |
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Creators: | Creators Email / ID Num. Kamal, Anis Farhana Mohammad 2016598617 |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management > Organizational behavior. Corporate culture H Social Sciences > HM Sociology > Social psychology > Social influence. Social pressure > Attitude |
Divisions: | Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perlis > Arau Campus > Faculty of Business and Management |
Programme: | Human Resource Management |
Keywords: | Incivility ; Injustice ; Hostile ; Abuse ; Discrimination |
Date: | 2019 |
URI: | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/35764 |
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