What are your assumptions about difficult people at work? Considering their possible motivations can change your perspective.

"You always mess things up. Why are you even on this project? Just quit already." Demeaning, hostile or undermining behavior like this is more common in the workplace and damaging than many people ...

Cases of antisocial, deviant, or even criminal behavior at work have been hitting the headlines. Just to mention some example, there was the case of a man in the UK who repeatedly sprayed company’s ...

New research, led by Aston University and published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, has revealed how self-efficacy plays a crucial role in shaping workplace behaviour.

Through a relentless focus on results at any cost and no consequences for the use of aggressive and abusive tactics to achieve them, our corporations inadvertently encourage bullying and other forms ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When we think about inappropriate behavior at work, we often picture obvious things — loud arguments, ...

A narcissist thinks a lot about themselves and less about others. They believe they are superior, and want people to pay them attention. In a business context, they’re a tough nut to crack.

Self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in their capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance outcomes, essentially their confidence in their ability to succeed. The ...