Yariv Itzkovich.
I study how mistreatment spills over in organizations, and whether AI can mitigate it.
Associate Editor, Journal of Managerial Psychology. Head of the Human Resource Management and Organizational Development track, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University. My research examines workplace mistreatment and the potential of AI to detect and reduce it.
Start here If you're new to the work, three good entry points: tit-for-tat in incivility and bullying (the latest-class view of who actually strikes back, and what that says about construct validity); bystanders’ roles in workplace bullying (the editorial pulling the bystander thread together across psychology, institutions, and AI); and AI-driven evaluation of soft skills (where the AI thread connects to organizational practice).
Fields of inquiry.
Workplace incivility & its transmission
How mistreatment travels through organizational hierarchies: from supervisors to subordinates, from bystanders to upstanders. Why one rude moment reshapes a team.
Bystander intervention & AI
Can artificial intelligence act as a real-time bystander to workplace harm? Testing AI-mediated interventions in organizational settings.
Workplace bullying and its cascades
How bullying moves through teams, higher education, hospitals, and volunteer organizations: scoping reviews, tit-for-tat dynamics, and the bystanders who get pulled in alongside targets.
Currently.
AI and workplace mistreatment
Proposing a framework for AI-driven bystander intervention using natural language processing for real-time mistreatment detection — grounded in bystander, trust, and human-AI collaboration theory, and tested through a qualitative study with mistreatment-experienced individuals.
Journal of Managerial Psychology
Oversees peer review for submissions on the psychological dimensions of managing and organizing people — spanning empirical, conceptual, and mixed-method work. Evaluates manuscripts on theoretical grounding, methodological rigor, clarity of contribution, and relevance to the science-practice bridge that defines the journal.
Selected writing.
All 48 publicationsPapers marked with a play badge include an audio companion. Click to listen.
Will they strike back? Shedding light on the tit-for-tat mechanism in incivility and bullying research from a latent class perspective
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
Adult to adult bullying in voluntary organizations: A scoping review
Nonprofit Management & Leadership