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Ethnicity and Workplace Bullying

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Dignity and Inclusion at Work

Part of the book series: Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment ((HWBEAH,volume 3))

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Abstract

Workplaces have become more ethnically and culturally diverse due to increased migration, globalization and internationalization of working life, and this trend is most likely to continue. The quality of interethnic relations among employees is therefore a question of growing concern. Based on the social identity theory (SIT) (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), the similarity-attraction paradigm (Byrne, 1971), the cultural distance hypothesis (Triandis, 1994) and the social interactionist approach (Felson & Tedeschi, 1993), it could be assumed that ethnic background and cultural differences affect the quality of interpersonal relations at work. At present, there is a paucity of studies that have investigated workplace bullying in relation to ethnic diversity. The reviewed studies indicate that immigrants/migrants and ethnic minority members are more likely to experience that they are exposed to bullying than the majority members, albeit not all groups. There is a need for more research on the prevalence and forms of workplace bullying, as well as causes that may render immigrants and ethnic minority members more likely to be exposed to bullying. The findings that are available at present, however, point to a need for organizations to take measures to prevent bullying of immigrant and ethnic minority employees.

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Bergbom, B., Vartia, M. (2019). Ethnicity and Workplace Bullying. In: D'Cruz, P., Noronha, E., Caponecchia, C., Escartín, J., Salin, D., Tuckey, M. (eds) Dignity and Inclusion at Work. Handbooks of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment, vol 3. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5338-2_14-1

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