You Can't Leave It At The Office: Consequences Of Co-Worker Rudeness
19 Aug 2011 16:07 Africa/Lagos
You Can't Leave It At The Office: Consequences Of Co-Worker Rudeness Are Far-Reaching
PR Newswire
WACO, Texas, Aug. 19, 2011
WACO, Texas, Aug. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A co-worker's rudeness can have a great impact on relationships far beyond the workplace, according to a Baylor University study published online in the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Findings suggest that stress created by incivility can be so intense that, at the end of the day, it is taken home by the worker and impacts the well-being of the worker's family and partner, who in turn takes the stress to his/her workplace.
"Employees who experience such incivility at work bring home the stress, negative emotion and perceived ostracism that results from those experiences, which then affects more than their family life - it also creates problems for the partner's life at work," said Merideth J. Ferguson, Ph.D., assistant profes...