How employees respond to personal offense: The effects of blame attribution, victim status, and offender status on revenge and reconciliation in the workplace

• 成果类型: Article; Proceedings Paper
• 署名作者: Aquino, K; Tripp, TM; Bies, RJ
• 署名单位: University of Delaware; Washington State University; Georgetown University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037//0021-9010.86.1.52
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 52-59

摘要

This study investigated the relationships between blame. victim and offender status. and the pursuit of revenge or reconciliation after a personal offense. Results from a sample of 141 government agency employees showed that blame is positively related to revenge and negatively related to reconciliation. In addition, victim-offender relative status moderated the relation between blame and revenge such that victims who blamed sought revenge more often when the offender's status was lower than their own. The victims' own absolute hierarchical status also moderated this relation such that lower. not higher, status employees who blamed sought revenge more often.