Hongling Liu, Hongsheng Xia

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School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.
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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.

Keywords: Workplace Ostracism, Work Behaviors, Performance

Cite this paper: Liu, H. and Xia, H. (2016) Workplace Ostracism: A Review and Directions for Future Research. Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 4, 197-201. doi: 10.4236/jhrss.2016.43022.

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