Gender and the dysfunctional workplace
By: edited by Suzy Fox, Terri R. Lituchy
Series: New horizons in management; New horizons in management
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780857932594
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Work environment
Description: Dysfunction in the workplace affects women differently than men. This book represents a broad spectrum of disciplines including law, management, communications, human resource management and industrial/organisational psychology and offers cross-disciplinary inquiries into the many roles gender plays in organizational dysfunction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gender and sex differences in the forms of workplace aggression / Joel H. Neuman; title: Gender differences in aggression and counterproductive work behavior / Paul E. Spector; title: The role of gender and attributional style in counterproductive aggressive work behaviors / Jeremy Mackey and Mark J. Martinko; title: Priming, painting, peeling, and polishing: constructing and deconstructing the woman-bullying-woman identity at work / Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Elizabeth A. Dickinson and Karen A. Foss; title: Workplace bullying and gender: it's complicated / Loraleigh Keashly; title: The so-called "equal opportunity bully'"s effect on women in the workplace / Kerri Lynn Stone; title: Selective incivility: gender, race, and the discriminatory workplace / Dana Kabat-Farr and Lilia M. Cortina; title: Observing sexual harassment at work: a gendered extension of a gendered construct / Tara C. Reich and M. Sandy Hershcovis; title: Sexual orientation harassment: an integrative review with directions for future research / Shaun Pichler; title: Sex or gender? The enigma of women's elevated absenteeism / Eric Patton and Gary Johns; title: Occupational mental health: a study of nurses in Argentina / Terri R. Lituchy [and others]; title: Job attitudes in an anglophone Caribbean country: the case of Barbados / Betty Jane Punnett [and others].