Workplace violence includes acts of incivility, bullying, verbal and physical aggression, threatening words or actions, sexual harassment, and physical assaults; and is a profound problem for healthcare workers. Although the number of published articles addressing workplace violence has increased in recent years, there was a lack of opportunities for researchers studying workplace violence in t...

Unfortunately, the amount and timeliness of this literature suggests a sad fact. The problem of incivility and lack of respect in the workplace is getting worse, not better. Nurses are notorious for not respecting each other. The worn out cliché’ of “nurses eat their young” is, sadly, still relevant. Regrettably, it is not just new nurses who are treated poorly. More aggressive, more powerful n...

While much is known about the prevalence and impact of incivility in workplace, relatively less those who instigate workplace incivility. This research aims to investigate instigation through a moral lens by examining roles other-condemning emotions (contempt, disgust, anger) appraisals coworkers’ morality as predictors this behavior at work. In Study 1, we used structural equation modeling ana...

Research on the retention of women in academia has focused on challenges, including a "chilly climate," devaluation, and incivility. The unique consequences of workplace ostracism - being ignored and excluded by others in an organizational setting - require focus on this experience as another interpersonal challenge for women in academia. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in t...

BACKGROUND Incivility is a significant problem in nurse satisfaction and nurse retention and can be detrimental to a patient's outcome; therefore, it would be beneficial to educate nurses on ways to improve incivility in clinical practice. OBJECTIVES To determine if a nursing education program, utilizing case studies and discussion of the nurses' experiences would increase awareness of incivi...

Although incivility has been described in other specialties, little is known about the attributes and perpetrators of it academic surgery. The goal this study was to identify commonly associated experienced by trainees faculty at surgery programs U.S. A web-based survey including Workplace Incivility Scale (WIS) questions regarding attributions sent institutions across In addition descriptive s...