An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind: Conflict Escalation into Workplace Bullying and the Role of Distributive Conflict Behavior

The moderating effect of laissez‐faire leadership on the relationship between co‐worker conflicts and new cases of workplace bullying: A true prospective design

“…The logistic regression analysis showed that being involved in a conflict with co‐workers at T1 increased the risk of identifying oneself as a new victim of workplace bullying 2 years later. This result supported Hypothesis and add to the existing literature of scholars who argue and substantiate that workplace bullying may be the end result of an escalated interpersonal conflict (Baillien et al, ; Hauge et al, ; Leymann, ) and that interpersonal conflict probably is one of the main avenues to workplace bullying (Baillien et al, ).…”

“…Accordingly, in a representative cross‐sectional study looking at a wide range of work‐related antecedents of bullying, Hauge et al () showed that involvement in interpersonal conflicts with colleagues and superiors and the immediate supervisor's leadership style were the strongest predictors of workplace bullying. Baillien et al's () recent cross‐sectional study showed a direct effect of task conflict on being a target of workplace bullying, as well as a mediating effect of relationship conflict on this relationship. This again is in line with Leon‐Perez, Medina, Arenas, and Munduate's () cross‐sectional study showing that relationship conflict partially mediated the direct association between task conflict and workplace bullying.…”

Levels of workplace bullying and escalation – a new conceptual model based on cut-off scores, frequency and self-labelled victimization

“…Based on the levels of conflict (Glasl, 1982) and the notion of conflict escalation as a pathway to workplace bullying (e.g. Baillien et al, 2015;Leon-Perez, Medina, Arenas, & Munduate, 2015) the process could be described as an escalation of negative acts. At some level the risk of this escalating process leading to bullying increases, and at some point, the systematics of exposure of negative acts increases to a level where the ability to defend oneself drops to an extent that it is relevant to talk about becoming a victim of bullying.…”

Direct and Indirect Effects of Belief in a Just World and Supervisor Support on Burnout via Bullying

“…In doing so, they have ignored the role of psychosocial factors such as work relations and human beliefs about burnout. Few studies have investigated the role of serious conflicts that degenerate into psycho-terror or bullying [4,5]. An analysis of the 2010 US National Health Interview Survey data [6] showed for a sample of 17,524 adults that 8.1% reported being harassed at their workplace.…”