Cyber Incivility: how technology influences workplace incivility, especially in, regards to digital technology. For instance, the influence of social media, emails, text messages and other computer-mediated interactions.
Gig Economy and Workplace Incivility: how contract labor, freelancing and job-hopping can impact organizational commitment, minimize internalization of organizational values and norms leading to situations of workplace incivility.
Workplace Diversity and Incivility: how employees from Generation X, Y and millennials utilize different communication styles along with how employees from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds would react and perceive situations differently, leading to incivility issues.
Leadership Forms and Workplace Incivility: how bullying, narcissism and sarcastic short-term effective leadership styles could aggravate workplace incivility. Critical analysis of incivility through an engagement of issues pertaining to power, politics and gameplay, discipline and control.
The Dark Side of Workplace Incivility: the aftermath of workplace incivility on employees and their lives. What impact does incivility have on work/life balance, emotional labor, and health matters?
Mandatory Diversity Programs: the impact on both the motivation and organizational commitment of employees forced to participate in "diversity" programs. Does directive participation in diversity result in certain incivil behaviors?
Combating Workplace Incivility: types of practical and theoretical workplace behavior modifications, including interpersonal interventions as well as group training exercises and awareness programs.
In addition to topical issues, the progression of frameworks might include:
Theoretical Concerns and Workplace Incivility: to allow a more comprehensive and in-depth analysis of workplace incivility, its causes and forms and outcomes, there is a need to explore and discuss different types of theoretical frameworks.
Methodological Considerations and Workplace Civility: types of methodologies and instruments which can be used to investigate workplace incivility, their strengths and limitations.
Submission Information:
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2018. All submissions must adhere to the guidelines of Organization Management Journal. Information on submissions and formatting can be found at the journal homepage, www.tandfonline.com/uomj. Submissions should be original, not published in any other source, and no more than 35 pages long, including references, figures, tables, appendices, etc. Submit electronic submissions, Word or RTF files only through the journal homepage link at https://mc.manuscripcentral.com/omj. Under submission type, select Special Issue: Workplace Incivility. Prospective authors as well as potential reviewers are encouraged to contact one of the guest co-editors.
For further information contact the Guest Editors:
Devi Akella: devi.akella@asurams.edu
Vance Johnson Lewis: vlewis@uca.edu
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