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Incivility.

Workplace incivility — the low-intensity, deviant behaviour with ambiguous intent to harm a target (Andersson & Pearson, 1999) — is the entry point of my research programme. It's the rude email, the dismissive interruption, the public correction, the colleague who keeps undermining without ever quite crossing a line you can name. Across two decades I've studied incivility from multiple angles: who perpetrates it and why, how victims react, what bystanders do, how it cascades from supervisors to subordinates, and how it relates to its more severe cousin — workplace bullying.

28 papers · also known as: workplace incivility, rude behavior at work, low-intensity mistreatment, uncivil workplace behaviour

Questions I'm working on

— How does incivility transmit through hierarchies (supervisor → subordinate)?
— When do targets of incivility strike back vs. withdraw vs. exit?
— How do bystanders move from inaction to upstander intervention?
— What distinguishes incivility from bullying empirically — or are they ends of a continuum?
— How can AI-based systems detect uncivil exchanges in real time?

Also known as

workplace incivilityrude behavior at worklow-intensity mistreatmentuncivil workplace behaviourfaculty incivilitypatient incivilityinterpersonal mistreatmentsubtle aggression at work

Papers in this area

Incivility.

Will they strike back? Shedding light on the tit-for-tat mechanism in incivility and bullying research from a latent class perspective

Delving into preschool teachers' revenge – A mediated-moderated model that explores the deeper nuances of hot and cold revenge among preschool teachers

Students' emotional well-being and perceived faculty incivility and just behavior

A call for transformation – EVLN in response to workplace incivility

The challenges of academic incivility: Social-emotional competencies and redesign of learning environments as remedies

Constructing and validating students' psychological contract violation scale

Cultivating a safer climate: Mistreatment intervention using the four pillars of education

Perpetrated incivility: Individual vs contextual antecedents — a reflective viewpoint

Why do leaders behave uncivilly: A new perspective on workplace mistreatment and power

Does incivility impact the quality of work-life and ethical climate of nurses?

An affective events theory viewpoint of the relationship between incivility and potential outcomes

The connection between perceived constructivist learning environments and faculty uncivil authoritarian behaviors

Rudeness is not only a kids' problem: Incivility against preschool teachers and its impacts

Tit for tat: Horizontal solidarity as a buffer for micro-level corruption in the framework of the social exchange theory

The dark side of teachers' behavior and its impact on students' reactions: A comprehensive framework to assess college students' reactions to faculty incivility

Cross-validation of the reactions to faculty incivility measurement through a multidimensional scaling approach

The relationships between emotional intelligence and perceptions of faculty incivility in higher education – Do men and women differ?

Incivility, empathy, and ethical work climate among hospital staff in Israel: A study within the framework of moral disengagement theory

Can incivility inhibit intrapreneurship?

Adjustment to college and perceptions of faculty incivility

The role of co-workers' solidarity as an antecedent of incivility and deviant behavior in organizations

Development and validation of a measurement to assess college students' reactions to faculty incivility

The impact of employees' status on incivility, deviant behavior, and job insecurity

The victim perspective of incivility: The role of negative affectivity, hierarchical status, and their interaction in explaining victimization

Impact of workplace incivility on horizontal solidarity and perceptions of job-insecurity

Uneconomic relations: The dark side of interpersonal interactions in organizations

Assessing the connection between students' justice experience and perceptions of faculty incivility in higher education

Incivility: The moderating effect of hierarchical status: Does a manager inflict more damage?