... Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Witnessing workplace bullying Schadenfreude Moral disengagement Negative gossip behavior Affective events theory In today’s workplace, regardless of the industry, conflicts among supervisors or colleagues arising...

...Quan Lin; Shangrong Yao; Gongxing Guo; Lunwen Wu Purpose Grounded in the Affective Events Theory (AET), this study aims to delve into the relationship between customer incivility and work–family conflicts, as well as the underlying mechanisms. By incorporating negative affect as a mediator...

... their incivility in the family restaurant context based on affective events theory (AET). Furthermore, positive and negative workplace gossip have not been adequately studied as indicators of coworker incivility. Underpinned by AET, scholars conceptualized workplace gossip among close coworkers before...

... and how these factors, independently and combined, act as precursors to bullying over time. One prominent theory that explains how organizational and individual factors interact is the affective events theory (AET). Design/methodology/approach In a two-wave, time-lagged study (N = 364...

... Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Workplace bullying Emotional exhaustion Work alienation Exit intentions Hotel employees India Affective events theory Chronicling a variety of terms used to describe workplace bullying, Crawshaw...

...Jianwei Deng; Xueting Hao; Tianan Yang Purpose Based on affective events theory (AET), this study aims to construct a moderated sequential mediation model to explore the pathways of organizational climate on workplace conflict and subsequent counterproductive work behaviour (CWB). Design...

... the underlying mechanism between intra-group relationship conflict and knowledge hiding. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on affective events theory (AET), the authors propose a theoretical model and empirically test it by applying hierarchical regression analysis and a bootstrapping approach to data from...

...Jill Booth; Jane L. Ireland; Sandi Mann; Mike Eslea; Lynda Holyoak Purpose This study aims to explore the causes, characteristics and consequences of workplace anger expression and suppression, with an additional aim of testing the emotional dimension of Affective Events Theory. Design...