New papers from Yariv Itzkovich — research on workplace mistreatment, incivility, bullying, bystander intervention, and AI-based mitigation.https://yarivitzkovich.org/en-ushttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/will-they-strike-back-incivility-bullying/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/will-they-strike-back-incivility-bullying/This study aims to shed more light on the "tit-for-tat" mechanism in both workplace incivility and bullying by adopting a latent class analysis approach to an incivility sample from Israel (n = 204) and a bullying sample from Belgium (n = 1352). Our results yielded an asymmetrica…Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTincivilitybullyingNotelaers, G., Itzkovich, Y., De Witte, H., Vander Elst, T., Baillieand, E.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/adult-bullying-voluntary-organizations/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/adult-bullying-voluntary-organizations/Approximately 15% of workers experience workplace bullying, yet nonprofit and voluntary organizations have received limited research attention. This scoping review examined bullying prevalence and the structural and contextual factors that enable it in these sectors. Researchers …Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTbullyingHodgins, M., Itzkovich, Y., Rayner, C., Pursell, L., MacCurtain, S.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bullying-harassment-higher-ed-scoping/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bullying-harassment-higher-ed-scoping/Workplace bullying encompasses detrimental negative micro-political interactions involving aggressive interpersonal behaviors. This review positions harassment based on protected characteristics as a constituent subset of workplace bullying — distinct, but inextricably linked to …Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTbullyinghierarchiesHodgins, M., Kane, R., Itzkovich, Y., Fahie, D.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bystanders-workplace-bullying-editorial/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bystanders-workplace-bullying-editorial/Interpersonal harm remains a pervasive challenge in both higher education and corporate life. Across contexts, individuals must interpret ambiguous social cues, regulate emotional reactions, and decide whether, how, and when to intervene as bystanders of these adversities. Instit…Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTbystanderbullyingeditorialItzkovich, Y., Hodgins, M., McNamara, P. M.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/objectivity-by-design-ai-soft-skills/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/objectivity-by-design-ai-soft-skills/Engineers' team collaboration skills are among software development's most important success factors. Existing Artificial Intelligence practices for engineers' soft skills assessment mainly rely on evaluations of subjective data gathered through surveys, interviews, or observatio…Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTaiGafni, R., Aviv, I., Kantsepolsky, B., Sherman, S., Rika, H., Itzkovich, Y., Barger, A.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/preschool-teachers-revenge/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/preschool-teachers-revenge/While revenge has captured the attention of researchers, certain nuances have been disregarded. Some studies have recognized the existence of two distinct forms of revenge — hot or cold — but the specific conditions underlying these variants have been overlooked. The present two …Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTincivilitywellbeingItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-identity-public-hospital/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-identity-public-hospital/The comprehensive, twofold goal of this paper is to investigate how social identities in a multilayered social platform of a public hospital are shaped, and to explain the impact of these identities on staff interrelations, patients, and the organization's overall ability to meet…Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTwellbeingShnapper-Cohen, M., Dolev, N., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-workers-witness-mistreatment/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-workers-witness-mistreatment/The study examined how 32 social workers (aged 25–55) depicted witnessing and responding to workplace mistreatment through drawings and narratives. Participants completed two drawings — one showing a work mistreatment you witnessed at work and another depicting your reaction to t…Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTbystanderwellbeingLev-Wiesel, R., Barhon, E., Itzkovich, Y., Eliraz, C., Shimony, D., Goldenberg, H., Dori-Egozy, N., Orly, T.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/students-wellbeing-faculty-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/students-wellbeing-faculty-incivility/This research examined how COVID-19 lockdowns and online learning affected 396 Israeli undergraduate students' emotional well-being, perceptions of faculty civility, and sense of justice. Using structural equation modeling, researchers found that students' negative emotions were …Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTincivilitywellbeingAlt, D., Itzkovich, Y., Naamati-Schnieder, L.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bystanders-health-risk-behaviors/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/bystanders-health-risk-behaviors/This article constructs a comprehensive theoretical model that outlines bystanders' emotional and behavioral responses to the mistreatment of adolescent peers. The model captures bystanders' risk and health risk behaviors, which have been overlooked in the context of their reacti…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTbystanderwellbeingItzkovich, Y., Barhon, E., Lev-Weisel, R.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/call-for-transformation-evln-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/call-for-transformation-evln-incivility/The study examined how employees respond to workplace incivility through qualitative interviews with 42 workers at a beverage manufacturing company in Israel. Researchers identified four reaction categories — Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect — aligned with the EVLN model for str…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilityDolev, N., Itzkovich, Y., Fisher-Shalem, O.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/challenges-academic-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/challenges-academic-incivility/A book-length case that academic incivility isn't a discipline problem — it is a failure of social-emotional design in how we build learning environments.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilitywellbeingItzkovich, Y., Alt, D., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/constructing-students-psychological-contract-violation/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/constructing-students-psychological-contract-violation/For two and a half decades, psychological contracts are researched mainly in work organisations as drivers of the attitudes and behaviours of employees, overlooking the importance of understanding the nature of the psychological contracts of students in higher education. This stu…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/cultivating-safer-climate/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/cultivating-safer-climate/Workplace mistreatment damages employees and organizations and should be mitigated. Thus, the present study's primary goal was to develop, employ, and evaluate an intervention program to promote a safer organizational climate in a public sector organization. In this study, UNESCO…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/drivers-of-intrapreneurship-aet/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/drivers-of-intrapreneurship-aet/Purpose: This study tests the underlying assumptions of affective events theory concerning the impact of job satisfaction and job insecurity driven by incivility on intrapreneurial behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected with a sample of 510 employees from fiv…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTwellbeingItzkovich, Y., Heilbrunn, S., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/gender-focused-prism-teachers-mistreatment/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/gender-focused-prism-teachers-mistreatment/The research examines how emotional intelligence and gender function as personal and social resources in building resilience for individuals who experienced teacher mistreatment during adolescence. Using Conservation of Resource theory, the study finds that men and women differ i…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTwellbeingabusive-supervisionDolev, N., Itzkovich, Y., Katzman, B.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/perpetrated-incivility-aom-2021/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/perpetrated-incivility-aom-2021/This conceptual paper revisits the antecedents of perpetrated workplace incivility from a reflective viewpoint, asking how much of incivility is explained by stable individual characteristics of perpetrators versus features of the organizational context in which they operate. Res…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Aleksic, A.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-emotional-ethos-teachers/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/social-emotional-ethos-teachers/This chapter argues that social-emotional skills should be understood as a constitutive element of teachers' professional ethos, rather than as an optional add-on to classroom technique. Drawing on research in emotional intelligence, teacher professional development, and teacher …Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTwellbeingDolev, N., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/why-leaders-behave-uncivilly/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/why-leaders-behave-uncivilly/This conceptual paper asks why leaders engage in uncivil conduct toward their subordinates, and offers a new perspective on workplace mistreatment in which power plays a central role. Existing research on workplace incivility has largely emphasized peer-to-peer dynamics, while wo…Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTincivilityabusive-supervisionItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/academic-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/academic-incivility/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/ai-era-soft-skills-hard-skills/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/ai-era-soft-skills-hard-skills/As artificial intelligence continues to automate routine cognitive and technical work, this chapter argues that soft skills—communication, collaboration, empathy, adaptability, and emotional intelligence—have become the new hard skills on which individual and organizational succe…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTaiDolev, N., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/an-introduction-to-the-dark-side-of-organizations/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/an-introduction-to-the-dark-side-of-organizations/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/emotional-intelligence-as-a-remedy-for-academic-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/emotional-intelligence-as-a-remedy-for-academic-incivility/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/full-range-indeed-dark-side-leadership/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/full-range-indeed-dark-side-leadership/Purpose: The full-range leadership theory, and the distinction between transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership behaviour, has strongly influenced leadership theory and research in the last several decades. However, in spite of its impact on theory and practic…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTabusive-supervisionItzkovich, Y., Heilbrunn, S., Aleksic, A.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-quality-work-life-nurses/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-quality-work-life-nurses/The study examined how workplace incivility affects nurses' perceptions of ethical climate and work-life quality. Researchers collected quantitative data from 148 nurses and qualitative interviews with 12 nurses and 14 doctors at an Israeli hospital. Key findings showed that witn…Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTincivilitywellbeingItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N., Shnapper-Cohen, M.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/interpersonal-mistreatment-definitions-of-offensive-behavior/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/interpersonal-mistreatment-definitions-of-offensive-behavior/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/learning-environments-as-precursors-of-academic-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/learning-environments-as-precursors-of-academic-incivility/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/personal-precursors-of-academic-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/personal-precursors-of-academic-incivility/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/tackling-academic-incivility-by-shifting-the-focus-to-studen/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/tackling-academic-incivility-by-shifting-the-focus-to-studen/Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolev · Springer briefs in educationWed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMTYariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva Dolevhttps://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/aet-incivility-aom-2019/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/aet-incivility-aom-2019/This conceptual paper applies affective events theory (AET) to the study of workplace incivility and its downstream outcomes. AET posits that everyday work events generate affective reactions, which in turn shape employees' attitudes and behaviors. Although a sizable literature h…Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Heilbrunn, S., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/constructivist-learning-faculty-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/constructivist-learning-faculty-incivility/This study examined the impact of constructivist-based activities in the classroom on students' perception of their teachers' authoritarian-based behaviors measured by their uncivil behaviors. It was postulated that teachers who use nonconstructivist activities in their classroom…Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTincivilityAlt, D., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/rudeness-preschool-teachers/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/rudeness-preschool-teachers/Preschool teachers experience incivility, a mild form of violence, directed at them from different sources. These incivility experiences impact their work, and indirectly children in their care. In particular, incivility may trigger emotional, perceptual and behavioral responses,…Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/tit-for-tat-horizontal-solidarity/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/tit-for-tat-horizontal-solidarity/This chapter explores how horizontal solidarity among coworkers can function as a buffer against micro-level corruption in organizations, using social exchange theory as its theoretical scaffold. Corruption is often studied at the institutional or macro level, yet much of its eve…Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/dark-side-teachers-behavior-framework/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/dark-side-teachers-behavior-framework/This chapter develops a comprehensive framework for understanding and assessing college students' reactions to faculty incivility, focusing on the dark side of teacher behavior and its downstream consequences for students. While faculty incivility has been increasingly recognized…Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Alt, D.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/cross-validation-faculty-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/cross-validation-faculty-incivility/Incivility in the academic arena elicits a wide range of reactions: it interferes with learning, increases stress, feelings of disrespect and helplessness. Although reactions to incivility were mainly tested in workplaces, an extensive, robust framework to explain and measure res…Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTincivilityAlt, D., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/ei-faculty-incivility-gender/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/ei-faculty-incivility-gender/Awareness of the concepts of incivility and emotional intelligence (EI) and of their relevance to higher education has grown in recent years. Incivility has been widely linked to deviant behaviours that are known to negatively impact upon students, while EI has been linked, among…Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTincivilitywellbeingItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/entrepreneurship-institutional-contexts-transition/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/entrepreneurship-institutional-contexts-transition/We examined how regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional environments shape perceptions of entrepreneurial feasibility and desirability across two Israeli kibbutz community types. Using convenient and snowball sampling, we identified entrepreneurial drive indicators amo…Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTwellbeingHeilbrunn, S., Itzkovich, Y., Weinberg, C.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-empathy-ethical-climate-hospital/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-empathy-ethical-climate-hospital/This chapter examines the interplay between workplace incivility, empathy, and ethical work climate among hospital staff in Israel, drawing on moral disengagement theory to explain when and why caregivers treat colleagues and patients uncivilly. Hospitals are morally charged work…Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Dolev, N.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-inhibit-intrapreneurship/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-inhibit-intrapreneurship/While intrapreneurship is widely researched from the viewpoint of managers, it is scantly investigated from the standpoint of employees. Specifically, thus far, researchers overlooked employees' perceptions concerning the quality of support they receive from their organisation an…Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Klein, G.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/adjustment-to-college-faculty-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/adjustment-to-college-faculty-incivility/This study assessed the relationships between adjustment and maladjustment to college life and faculty incivility (FI). Two FI constructs were used: Active FI and passive FI. The first includes serious incivilities, such as personal comments or verbal attacks against students; th…Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTincivilityAlt, D., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/coworkers-solidarity-deviant-behavior/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/coworkers-solidarity-deviant-behavior/Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study assesses the relationship between co-workers' solidarity as an antecedent of incivility and deviant behavior. More specifically, we hypothesize that reduced co-workers' solidarity will increase not only incivility but also deviant…Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Heilbrunn, S.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/development-measurement-students-reactions-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/development-measurement-students-reactions-incivility/This study was aimed at constructing and validating a measurement to assess students' responses to faculty incivility (FI). A mixed-method approach was implemented. A qualitative method was used to analyze responses to FI as described by college students. The results foregrounded…Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y., Alt, D.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/employee-status-incivility-job-insecurity/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/employee-status-incivility-job-insecurity/The study examines how workplace incivility relates to job insecurity and employee deviance, with particular attention to employment status differences. Researchers collected 648 responses from Israeli employees in 2014 using online surveys and structural equation modeling. The f…Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTincivilityItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/victim-perspective-incivility-negative-affectivity/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/victim-perspective-incivility-negative-affectivity/Incivility is an expression of disregard toward others in a social interaction in which one side is victimised by the other. Whereas previous victimisation research has largely focused on overtly aggressive behaviours, this study shifts the lens to the more subtle and ambiguous p…Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTincivilityhierarchiesItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-horizontal-solidarity-euromed-2015/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-horizontal-solidarity-euromed-2015/Drawing on the social exchange model and Lazarus' theory of cognitive appraisal, we investigated the relationship between perceived workplace incivility and two possible outcomes—horizontal solidarity and perceptions of job-insecurity—while differentiating between two separate so…Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTincivilityHeilbrunn, S., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/kilkalat-yehasim/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/kilkalat-yehasim/A Hebrew-language volume tracing the dark side of interpersonal interactions in contemporary organizations. Workplace incivility — a term the book foregrounds in its English form on the back cover — sits at the centre of the account, alongside power abuse and the relational harms…Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTincivilitybullyingabusive-supervisionItzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/students-justice-faculty-incivility/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/students-justice-faculty-incivility/This study assesses the association between students' individual justice experience and their perceptions of faculty incivility (FI) in higher education. Drawing on justice psychology, the study argues that the way students intuitively perceive, process and evaluate their teacher…Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMTincivilityAlt, D., Itzkovich, Y.https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-hierarchical-status-manager-damage/https://yarivitzkovich.org/publications/incivility-hierarchical-status-manager-damage/Incivility is an expression of disregard toward others in a social interaction. The current study predicts that incivility will inflict more damage when perpetrated by higher status holders, for the intention to leave the organization, the possibility that the psychological contr…Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMTincivilityhierarchiesItzkovich, Y.