CHAPTER # 02 LITERATURE REVIEW Social undermining Various researchers have defined social undermining as expression of negative and unfavourable actions and emotions towards a specific person or group with an aim to prevent that individual/s to achieve their goals and their ability to accomplish their work or to build and maintain positive relationships(Duffy, Gangster, & Pagon, 2002). Social undermining is usually show in shape of certain anger or negative feelings (Joseph et al., 2011) but the consequences of these arise in form of negative negative outcomes. Undermining behaviors continuously reduce the constructive outcomes of the victim, ultimately leading to destructive consequences on employee well being (Duffy, Scott, Shaw, Tepper & Aquino, 2012). Social undermining is initiated by the negative intentions of the aggressor towards the victim. Social undermining is can be done both from seniors and colleagues at workplace, both have the different level of intensity and …show more content…
These trait cognitions are thought to influence goal-directed behaviours, which affect goal achievement and psychological well-being, including positive and negative emotions (Snyder et al., 1991). Aggressors’ undermining behaviour impact differently on each individual in the organization with different responses from the individual as some moderator such as hope impact on the relationship, and the employees enriched with positive physiological capital of hope moderates the negative impact of undermining on employee well being and performance (Hepburn & Enns,
This academic journal defines and goes in depth about stereotype threat. In the beginning of the journal, the authors give real life example of stereotype threats and how they negative affect people. They then go on to define what stereotype threat is. The rest of the journal explores the psychology behind stereotype threat and why people continue to fall victim to it. I picked this article people it spoke about and explained stereotype threat in an educational and scientifically way, while still making it easy to understand.
In many ways we stereotype people based on their characteristics and tend to judge them in a positive and negative manner depending on, the different types of the out-groups we place them in. Such as envied out-group, pitied out-group and despised out-group. When we restrict interactions with out-groups. Dominant groups limit social interaction with out-groups which maintains group boundaries and limit access to out-group members. These limitations are useful, when the law is put out or unbreakable by spatial boundaries and physical segregation.
The attribution theory is a theory that proposes that people attempt to understand the behaviour of others by associating it with either situational (external) or dispositional (internal) factors. While this an interesting and popular theory, it has been discovered that when attributing behaviour, we often make errors, as we are more biased and judgemental than we would like to think. The two attribution errors that I will bring up in this essay are The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) and the Self-Serving Bias (SSB). The Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE) implies that when we observe the behaviour of others, we tend to over-attribute their behaviour to dispositional factors and underestimate the influence that situational factors may have had.
Spread of negative stereotypes Negative stereotypes have been created by us, as a society, we have allowed ourselves to live with this misconceptions that impact all of us in a certain way. We have contributed to those beliefs that say that social status, income class and ethnicity define our identity. In fact, we have been and also have prejudged others at a certain point in our lives, we prejudge people we don’t know and also the ones we think we know like our own family members. In “The Achievement of Desire” by Richard Rodriguez he discusses his personal experience on how he stereotyped himself and also his family.
This can create an atmosphere in which can tear communities apart and destroy relationships. Judging due to preconceived notions results only in destruction and chaos, and fails to lead to anything positive. In modern society, it is so easy to judge and be judged due to what is seen initially, but ultimately, “You never truly understand a person until you walk a mile in their shoes”
Page 239. “In a society that is historically divided along harsh, unyielding axes of dominance and subordination, individuals cannot escape the influence of cultural stereotypes and other prescriptive representations of the groups they belong to, nor can they escape the influence of the social and economic advantages and disadvantages that institutions confer on these
Downey, C. A., Chang, E. C., Hirsch, J. K., & Lin, N. J. (2016). Challenges and prospects for positive psychology research, theory, assessment, and practice in a multiracial and multiethnic world. In E. C. Chang, C. A. Downey, J. K. Hirsch, N. J. Lin, E. C. Chang, C. A. Downey, ... N. J. Lin (Eds.), Positive psychology in racial and ethnic groups: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 307-321). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/14799-015 Friedman, H. L., & Robbins, B. D. (2012).
In addition, employees who experience more positive emotions at work make greater contributions to organizational effectiveness and, when people are in a good mood, they are more sociable, less aggressive, and better able to recall positive information (Pinder, 1998). Also, those employees who are more positive possess higher confidence, optimism, self-efficacy, likability, and sociability, which in turn, making them more satisfied with their job and increases workplace achievement (Lyubormirsky, King, & Diner, 2005). Happy employees bring their happiness from the office to their home and they also transfer their happiness from their home to the office (Lyubormirsky et. al,
The three psychological theories which are used to explain the causes of prejudice and discrimination will be evaluated and outlined in this essay. Prejudice is a negative feeling directed at members of a group just because they are part of the group. Discrimination can be seen as the behavioural expression of prejudice i.e. the behaviour or negative actions, directed at members of other group, mainly based on their sex, ethnicity, age or social class. The mass murder of Jews by the Nazi’s in the Second World War is an example of prejudice and discrimination. Prejudice comprises of affection, behaviour and cognition of an individual, whereas discrimination only involves the behaviour.
The Primary causes of prejudice are psychological as shown by emotional prejudice and demonstrated through an authoritarian personality, that may result in displaced aggression. Where Sociological prejudice can be shown by social norms. One aspect of the psychological prejudice defined in Parrillo’s essay, can be driven by emotion. Parrillo explains that emotional level of prejudice are “feelings that a minority group arouses in an individual. Although these feelings may be based on stereotypes from the cognitive level, they represent a more intense stage of personal involvement.
The American dream is like food; it is a subjective desire constructed based on the individual. Everyone has their own flavor and idea on how it should be made. With such variance in ambition, it is an exercise in futility to attempt to define a ubiquitous goal. In general, however, the American dream is to have enough money to support yourself, be responsible for nothing, and to answer to no one. Money is the gateway to happiness, and the pinnacle of that is income that is passively earned.
Similar types of abuses in power take place in work atmospheres in today’s
Besides that, dominant defensive approach in straightforward manner in verbal or physical harassment. When someone assume about themselves as think actually truth, for example “I can written this report better than you
Internet has transformed our day to day live personally, socially, politically and professionally. The internet impacts our personal, social and business lives. When we wake up in the morning, we use our internet device to check the weather, the news and our social media site. When we get to the office, we check our business emails and respond to them. Before the wide spread use of the internet about 32 years ago people use to talk on landline telephones and people use to TV that use analog equipment.