TITLE:
Workplace Ostracism: A Review and Directions for Future Research
AUTHORS:
Hongling Liu, Hongsheng Xia
KEYWORDS:
Workplace Ostracism, Work Behaviors, Performance
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies,
Vol.4 No.3,
September
1,
2016
ABSTRACT: Workplace ostracism was originally defined that individuals were excluded or ignored or disregard
by other employees. Workplace ostracism is a kind of “cold violence”, which has been paid
attention widespread. The study reported here mainly summarized workplace ostracism and its
effects from lots of domestic and foreign literatures. Firstly, we comb the conceptions and nature
of workplace ostracism in different views. Secondly, we can mainly summarize its effects of
workplace ostracism by means of studying plenty of empirical researches. Lastly, we point out the
potential defects in previous studies and there are still some issues worthwhile exploring in the
future.