Yariv Itzkovich.
I study how mistreatment moves through organizations — and whether machines can learn to interrupt it.
Associate Editor at the Journal of Managerial Psychology. Head of the Human Resource Management track, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ariel University. Researcher of workplace mistreatment and the potential of AI to detect and reduce it.
Fields of inquiry.
Workplace incivility & its transmission
How mistreatment travels through organizational hierarchies — from supervisors to subordinates, from witnesses to actors. Why one rude moment reshapes a team.
Bystander intervention & AI
Can artificial intelligence act as a real-time witness 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 witnesses who get pulled in alongside targets.
Currently.
AI and workplace mistreatment
Can machines detect mistreatment in real time — and what does that mean for organizations?
Journal of Managerial Psychology
Handling manuscripts on dehumanisation, flexible HRM, and the shape of modern work.
Selected writing.
All 41 publicationsWill 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
Workplace Bullying and Harassment in Higher Education Institutions: A Scoping Review
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health