Coworker ostracism, depersonalization of coworkers and thwarted change-oriented OCB: the mitigating role of employee idealism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purpose This study details the unexplored link between employees' exposure to coworker ostracism and their engagement in change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior, as well as the mediating role of their depersonalization of coworkers and the moderating role of their idealism. Design/methodology/approach The research hypotheses are tested with survey data obtained from employees who work in the banking sector. Findings A critical reason that a sense of being socially excluded turns employees away from extra-role change efforts is that they respond to their exclusion by treating coworkers as if they were impersonal objects. This explanatory role is mitigated to the extent that employees' personal values reflect an interest in avoiding harm to others. Practical implications For human resource (HR) management practice, this study pinpoints a core conduit, the development of dehumanized perceptions of coworkers, through which frustrations about being ostracized can translate into a reluctance to perform voluntary activities to improve the current organizational situation, which otherwise might help revert the negative treatments. It also showcases how this escalation can be contained by nurturing idealistic values within an organization's workforce. Originality/value This study extends HR management research by explicating how and when a sense of being ignored by coworkers can escalate into diminished efforts to change and improve the organizational status quo voluntarily.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".