鈥淲orkplace bullies thrive in hands-off, laissez faire environments; environments such as NFL locker rooms, which are known to be players’ not coaches’ sanctuaries,鈥� said Wheeler, the Spachman Professor of Human Resource Management who directs 溏心vlog免费B站鈥檚 one-year master of business administration program. 鈥淧eople become bullies not by some personality defect but by feeling that their workplace resources are threatened. In the hyper-competitive NFL, every player works under the constant threat of resource loss, whether it鈥檚 losing a starting job, a paycheck, or their health through an injury. This is where organizational leadership and culture matter.鈥�
Wheeler鈥檚 research has shown that if an organization tacitly approves of aggressive and bullying behaviors, that organization will get exactly those behaviors.
鈥淓mployees will do what they are rewarded for doing, and those rewards come in the form of more than just money,鈥� Wheeler said. 鈥淪omewhere in the Dolphins organization and probably in many NFL organizations, the very leaders who now condemn Richie Incognito’s reported behaviors likely knew of these behaviors and did nothing about them until Jonathan Martin left the team.鈥�
* The interactive efforts of abusive supervision and entitlement on emotional exhaustion and co-worker abuse. Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R.B. Halbesleben, and Marilyn V. Whitman. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 2013. The British Psychological Society.
* Eating their cake and everyone else鈥檚 cake too: Resources as the main ingredient to workplace bullying. Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R.B. Halbesleben, and Kristen Shanine. Business Horizons, 2010.