RT Article
T1 Linking perceived organizational politics to workplace cyberbullying perpetration: the role of anger and fear
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 186
IS 2
SP 445
OP 463
A1 Malik, Omer Farooq
A1 Pichler, Shaun
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1855027143
AB The introduction of information and communication technologies in the workplace has extended the scope of bullying behaviors at work to the online context. However, less is known about the role of situational factors in encouraging cyberbullying behavior in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of perceived organizational politics in fueling cyberbullying in the workplace, and to examine the central role of negative emotions in this process. The sample comprised 279 faculty members of three large public sector universities in Islamabad, Pakistan. Results demonstrated that perceived organizational politics was positively associated with discrete negative emotions of anger and fear. Moreover, results indicated that anger was positively associated with cyberbullying perpetration, whereas fear was positively associated with face-to-face bullying victimization. Results also supported the idea that victims of face-to-face bullying may develop a positive attitude toward cyberbullying and retaliate against their more powerful face-to-face bullies online, possibly anonymously. We contribute to the literature by demonstrating that both forms of bullying can co-occur in the workplace as a consequence of perceived organizational politics, and the two roles - bully and victim - may be swapped among victims and perpetrators.
K1 Cyberbullying
K1 Face-to-face bullying
K1 Negative emotions
K1 Pakistan
K1 Perceived organizational politics
K1 Perpetration
K1 PLS-SEM
K1 Victimization
K1 Workplace
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-022-05234-7