Dark Sides of Organizational Life

Dark Sides of Organizational Life

by H. Cenk Sözen and H. Nejat Basım
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 28/04/2023

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Exploring the darkest side of organizations may have a potential to change our previous assumptions about business life. Scholars both in management and organizational research fields have shown interest in the "bright" side of behavioral life and have looked for the ways to create a positive organizational climate and assumed a positive relation between happiness of employees and productivity. These main assumptions of the Human Relations School have dominated the scientific inquiry on organizational behavior. However, "the dark side of organizational life" may have more explanatory power than "the bright side". Hostility, jealousy, envy, rivalry, gossip, problematic personalities, dislike, revenge, and social exclusion are the realities of business life. A manager may devote most of their time to cope with conflicts, deviant behaviors, ambitious individuals, gossips, and dysfunctional rivalry among employees. It is evident that negative events and interactions among employees cost more time and energy for a manager than the positive side of organizational life. This edited collection specifically focuses on these issues and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of management, organizational studies and behavior, sociology, social psychology, and human resource management.

ISBN:
9781000874631
9781000874631
Category:
Organizational theory & behaviour
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
28-04-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis

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