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A relational model of workplace victimization: social roles and patterns of victimization in dyadic relationships
1Department of Business Administration, Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. aquinok@lerner.udel.edu
Abstract:
This article proposes a model of the ways in which dyadic interactions between employees who occupy 1 of 4 archetypal social roles in organizations can lead to either episodic or institutionalized patterns of victimization. The model shows how the occurrence of victimization involving these 4 role types is influenced by organizational variables such as power differences, culture, and access to social capital. The model integrates behavioral and social structural antecedents of victimization to develop a relational perspective on the dynamics of harmful behavior in the workplace.
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