Social Intelligence and the Explanation of Workplace Abuse

Abstract

Bullying in the workplace by management-level supervisors and executives has been well documented in the literature; however, bullying of employees by their associates is often less noticeable, even stealth, and has been understudied. This article presents a theoretical model that draws from the literature of clinical psychology and recent research in neuroscience to identify and describe the four different roles played in employee workplace colleague abuse. These roles include (1) the leader of the abuse, (2) the targeted employee, (3) members of the mob who bully the targeted employee under the direction of the abuse leader, and (4) participants in a whisper campaign. To understand the motivations of employees who intentionally cause an associate distress or illness, it is necessary to understand these distinct roles.

The Unethical Managerial Behaviours and Abusive Use of Power in Downwards Vertical Workplace Bullying: A Phenomenological Case Study

“…The study also showed that vertical bullying has several negative consequences for the bullied as well as for the organization itself. The types of consequences detailed in this study and presented previously in the concept consequences of vertical bullying, which is composed by eight factors, verify the results from previous studies, including Einarsen (2005), Hoel et al (2010), Salin (2003), Popp (2017) and Salin and Notelaers (2017).…”

“…The targets of workplace bullying experience both psychological and physical issues, including anxiety and distress caused by increased levels of cortisol. Often, they interpret this reaction as a sign of personal weakness (Hoel and Salin 2003;Popp 2017). This is line with the demand-control model (Karasek 1979(Karasek , 1989Karasek and Theorell 1990) that states employees experience high levels of stress, which can also affect their physical health when exposed to high-demand and low-control situations.…”

“…Earlier literature about bullying presented the target as being insecure or lacking self-esteem (Leymann 1996), but recent studies suggest these traits are the result of being bullied (Popp 2017(Popp (2017, targets are often high achievers, well skilled, competent, and trustful. He also stated that, in many cases, targets are also attractive and successful persons.…”

Social Intelligence Contribution in Perspective Learning Outcomes of Elementary School Social Science Subject

“…Further research by Jerome Popp (2017) showed that someone with a high social intelligence is very easy to feel empathic, more easily understand what other people think and their intentions, as well as better understand and interpret the comments of people who interact with it. Likewise, a study conducted by Kriemeen (2017) concluded there is a correlation between social intelligence and social creative behavior with positive and significant correlation.…”

Investigation of Social Intelligence Features of Athletes in Different Branches in Terms of Various Variables

“…Social intelligence includes the ability of individuals in a group to work in collaboration, communicate with other people, understand others more easily and value their feelings (Ünver & Semiz, 2016;Popp, 2017), enabling individuals to live healthily with other individuals and solve problems of social life at the same time, and helps them to perform various social tasks (Saxena & Jain, 2013).…”