The Interpersonal Pollution and its Effect on Group Members’ Well-Being, and on Culture of Unity in Organizational Context

Abstract

The new concept of "interpersonal pollution" and its antecedents and effects, i.e. on organizational members' health and well-being and on organizational outcomes are investigated. Building upon this work this presentation proposes a model and tentative defi nition of a broader construct, i.e. "organizational pollution", and identifi es its potential antecedents and explores its impact on humans' health and well-being and organizational outcomes. In particular our model explores the roles played by leaders' and members' dark personalities and lack of environmental concern, by unethical leadership, by both the characteristics of the community and the organization, including the latter's physical and ethical environment, and fi nally their link to organizational pollution. This new model implications for organizational and environmental psychology are discussed.

Algorithmic pollution: Making the invisible visible

“…Our multidisciplinary literature review reveals numerous other examples of social pollution interpreted as harm. For example, forms of social pollution include racial discrimination and racism (Vesely-Flad 2017; Norman, 2004;Bhattacharyya et al 2002;Sherman and Clore, 2009), political judgment (Inbar and Pizzaro, 2014), various forms of workplace maltreatment such as bullying, harassment and gender bias (Fedorova and Menshikova, 2014;Paradis et al 2014;Pietrulewicz, 2016;Dunham, 2017), pollution of privacy by mass surveillance (Froomkin, 2015), as well as forms of pollution in education, caused by the internet (Hope, 2008) or test scores (Haladyna and Nolen, 1991). Recently, the ideas from social pollution, in particular the notion of pollution as a harm to people rather than pollution as discharge, have been used to argue the case for visual pollution, which is now formally recognized as a new type of environmental pollution (Nagle, 2009, Wakil, et al 2019 Following Sarine (2012), Vesely-Flad (2017), Nagle (2009) and other contemporary scholars of social pollution, our notion of algorithmic pollution is based on the idea of social pollution-as-harm.…”