This paper introduces the term organizational shunning to describe a form of psychological violence against employees. Well established psychological and sociological theories are used to develop propositions regarding organizational shunning and to set a prospective research agenda. In this theory building exercise, an organizational taboo is exposed, and implications are discussed for improve...

Employees can help to improve organizational performance by sharing ideas, suggestions, or concerns about practices, but sometimes they keep silent because of the experience of negative affect. Drawing and expanding on this stream of research, this article builds a theoretical rationale based on core affect and cognitive appraisal theories to describe how differences in affect activation and bo...

Organization Behavior has paid more and more attentions on the impact of leaders’ humor on employees. The leaders’ humor plays an important role in the fight against organization silence as an important means to ease the work pressure and adjust the organizational climate. This study has surveyed 502 Chinese employees to explore the impact of leader’s affiliative humor and aggressive humor styl...

abstract background: solid waste generated by human activities. today, solid waste has changed a ‎lot‏ ‏with changing lifestyles. the main aim of this study ‎was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and behavior of students in ‎shiraz university of medical sciences about the recycling of solid ‎waste. methods: this analytical -descriptive cross- sectional study was ‎done on 383 students of shira...