Managers spend much of their time managing conflict and struggle to know how to respond when a “he said, she said” workplace dispute occurs. However, a new study shows how employees’ intuitive moral values might give rise to feelings of sympathy toward alleged perpetrators and anger toward their accusing victims. The research, published in Organization Science, also offers novel insights into what enables perpetrators to go unpunished and why their victims experience backlash for coming forward.
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Source: Phys.org