Social Undermining Literature Review

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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,

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