Chaos and the Abuse of Power
Chaos and the Abuse of Power
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混乱与滥用权力
DOI：
10.1177/0730888406292885
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Steven H. Lopez
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作者：
R. Hodson;Vincent J. Roscigno;Steven H. Lopez
欺凌是一个严重的工作场所问题——越来越多的社会科学文献强调了这一事实。然而，除了对欺凌者人格特质的分析之外，其原因很少受到系统关注。本文探讨了关系权力和组织混乱在工作场所欺凌现象中的作用。对内容编码的组织民族志的分析整合了定量和定性技术，并大量借鉴民族志本身。结果表明，关系无能为力和组织混乱的相互作用导致了欺凌行为。相比之下，如果组织因素和关系因素之间存在脱节，欺凌的程度则由潜在的、特定于背景的权力方面决定。这些结果表明，组织不仅需要保护弱者，还需要消除混乱——为滥用权力创造机会的混乱。
Bullying is a significant workplace problem—a fact highlighted by a growing body of social science literature. Its causes, however, have received little systematic attention beyond analyses of the personality attributes of bullies. This article explores the roles of relational power and organizational chaos in the emergence of workplace bullying. The analysis of content-coded organizational ethnographies integrates quantitative and qualitative techniques and draws heavily from the ethnographies themselves. Results suggest that the interplay of relational powerlessness and organizational chaos gives rise to bullying. In contrast, where there is a disjuncture between organizational and relational factors, the extent of bullying is determined by underlying, context-specific aspects of power. These results suggest a need for organizations not only to protect the weak, but also to eliminate chaos—chaos that creates openings for the abuse of power.