Hazing: Uncovering one of the best-kept secrets of the workplace

Josefowitz, Natasha; Gadon, Herman

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“…Cimino, 2013). In fact, Thomas and Meglich (2019) reported about 25% of employees have been hazed, and Josefowitz and Gadon (1989) put that number closer to 75%. In addition, the limited extant research on workplace hazing has suggested that hazing occurs across a range of industries (Thomas and Meglich, 2019).…”

Section: The Need For a Conceptualization Of Workplace Hazing And A Wmentioning

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Development and validation of the workplace hazing scale

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What is workplace hazing and how does it affect newcomers? Although most people associate hazing behaviors with university life, sports teams, or military organizations, hazing has been reported in a wide variety of workplace settings as a means of socializing newcomers into their new work environments. However, hazing is seldom researched in the organizational context. Consequently, we contribute to research on workgroup socialization by examining workplace hazing as one particular form of socialization. We first draw on management research on socialization, anthropology research on hazing, and anecdotal evidence to define and conceptualize the construct of workplace hazing. Then, we use a multi-study scale development process to create and validate a five-dimensional workplace hazing scale (WHS). The resulting 15-item WHS captures a range of hazing behaviors across organizational settings, and includes the dimensions of segregation, verbal abuse, task-related hazing, physical abuse, and testing. Overall, our research suggests that the WHS is a valid, reliable scale that can be used to assess this complex phenomenon and that workplace hazing has detrimental effects on newcomers.

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Section: The Need For a Conceptualization Of Workplace Hazing And A Wmentioning

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“…Anderson and Thomas, 1996;Kozlowski and Bell, 2003;Moreland and Levine, 1984;Moreland et al, 2001). Given its potential for both antisocial and prosocial outcomes, hazing is one such practice that deserves attention (Josefowitz and Gadon, 1989).…”

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“…However, hazing in the workplace context remains largely underexplored. Thirty years ago, Josefowitz and Gadon (1989) published a study on workplace hazing, calling it a best-kept secret of the workplace. In interviews with more than 1000 employees, they discovered that 75% of employees were hazed at work and 10% of these employees quit because of it.…”

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“…Limited evidence exists on workplace hazing’s outcomes (Josefowitz & Gadon, 1989), and research on hazing in other domains has produced a complex body of inconsistent findings, including negative outcomes (e.g., depression; Castaldelli-Maia et al, 2012; Kim, Kim, & Park, 2019), and beneficial consequences, like newcomer bonding (Winslow, 1999) and a sense of individual accomplishment (Allan et al, 2019). Workplace bullying research has consistently and repeatedly found only negative outcomes to the targeted individuals who report suffering PTSD (Nielsen, Birkeland, Hansen, Knardahl, & Heir, 2017), burnout, intentions to quit, and lowered job satisfaction (Nielsen & Einarsen, 2012).…”

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Workplace Hazing: Toward an Organizational Science of a Cryptic Group Practice

Thomas

Cimino

Meglich

2021

Group & Organization Management

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The purpose of this paper is to establish a foundation for studying and managing new employee hazing in workgroups. Available empirical evidence indicates 25–75% of American employees encounter workplace hazing, but very little empirical research exists on this phenomenon. Workers are changing jobs more frequently than ever, which increases the cumulative impact and importance of new employee experiences, including hazing, a complex group-based phenomenon. Because hazing is a relatively universal social practice without a strongly established literature in the organizational sciences, we draw from multiple disciplines in reviewing and modeling the practice. The current research offers three major contributions: (a) a relatively exhaustive review of relevant empirical and theoretical work on hazing, (b) an initial, testable model for understanding workplace hazing as a multi-level phenomenon, including individual and group-level antecedents and outcomes, and (c) an outline of the need and support for considering both the dysfunctional and functional consequences of hazing, given the variety of forms it takes and reactions it evokes. Finally, we present actionable guidance for researchers seeking to study workplace hazing and discuss the organizational implications of our work for practitioners.

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“…This hazing is not necessarily based on either individual or group hostility, but instead is often a method by which senior group members establish their seniority and dominance over others, and it is a way of testing new members (Josefowitz and Gadon, 1989). Even when women are subjected to the same hazing as men, they often respond to it differently.…”

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Sex, power, and dominance: the evolutionary psychology of sexual harassment

Browne

2006

Manage Decis Econ

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Among the effects of sexual integration of the workplace has been an increase in the opportunities for, and incidence of, sexual harassment. Sexual harassment, and women's responses to it, can be understood as reflections of the different evolved sexual psychologies of the sexes. Among the issues discussed are whether the abusiveness of work environments should be viewed from the perspective of the 'reasonable person' or the 'reasonable woman,' whether sexual harassment is really 'about power' rather than about sex, and whether harassment that takes a sexual form is necessarily 'because of' the sex of the victim.

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Hazing: Uncovering one of the best-kept secrets of the workplace

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Development and validation of the workplace hazing scale

Development and validation of the workplace hazing scale

Workplace Hazing: Toward an Organizational Science of a Cryptic Group Practice

Sex, power, and dominance: the evolutionary psychology of sexual harassment

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