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Bullying.
Workplace bullying is repeated, persistent mistreatment that erodes a target's dignity, mental health, and capacity to do their work. Most of my bullying research lives at two of its hardest questions: the empirical relationship between bullying and incivility (are they the same construct measured at different intensities, or genuinely different phenomena?), and the tit-for-tat dynamic — when victims become perpetrators and vice versa. Recent work uses latent class analysis to show that the bullying–incivility border is fuzzier than the literature has historically claimed.
5 papers · also known as: workplace bullying, mobbing, harassment at work, persistent negative acts
Questions I'm working on
- — How does bullying relate to incivility — separate construct or continuum?
- — Under what conditions do victims retaliate, becoming perpetrators?
- — Why is bullying so prevalent in higher education and the nonprofit sector?
- — What role do bystanders play in escalation vs. de-escalation?
Also known as
workplace bullyingmobbingharassment at workpersistent negative actsworkplace harassmentbullying in higher educationnonprofit organization bullyingorganizational bullying
Papers in this area
- 2026 Article In press
Will they strike back? Shedding light on the tit-for-tat mechanism in incivility and bullying research from a latent class perspective
Notelaers, G., Itzkovich, Y., De Witte, H., Vander Elst, T., & Baillieand, E.
Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma
- 2025 Article
Adult to adult bullying in voluntary organizations: A scoping review
Hodgins, M., Itzkovich, Y., Rayner, C., Pursell, L., & MacCurtain, S.
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
- 2024 Article
Workplace bullying and harassment in higher education institutions: A scoping review
Hodgins, M., Kane, R., Itzkovich, Y., & Fahie, D.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- 2024 Editorial In press
Bystanders' roles in workplace bullying: Impacts and interventions
Itzkovich, Y., Hodgins, M., & McNamara, P. M.
Frontiers in Psychology
- 2015 Book
Uneconomic relations: The dark side of interpersonal interactions in organizations
Itzkovich, Y.
Resling Publishing (Hebrew)
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