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“When facing a rude, aggressive, or mean coworker, it's important for employees to remain calm and professional, avoiding emotional reactions that might escalate the situation,” Daniel Grace ...
By Alina Dizik Rude co-workers are unfortunately common. Disrespectful, bad-mannered co-workers exist at virtually every workplace, and communicating with them can put a major damper on your day.
Catherine Mattice and Karen Garman define workplace bullying as "systematic aggressive communication, manipulation of work, and acts aimed at humiliating or degrading one or more individual that create an unhealthy and unprofessional power imbalance between bully and target(s), result in psychological consequences for targets and co-workers ...
Aggressive acts can take any possible combination of these three dichotomies. For example, failing to deny false rumors about a coworker would be classified as verbal–passive–indirect. Purposely avoiding the presence of a coworker you know is searching for your assistance could be considered physical–passive–direct.
Social undermining can affect exercise routines when their exercise routines can conflict with seeing friends or even coworkers. Friends and coworkers can influence the person to skip their exercise, even when a spouse is concerned about their well-being. The study also showed that social undermining can affect men and women differently.
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Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others. [1] The authors hypothesize there is an "incivility spiral" in the workplace made worse by "asymmetric global interaction". [1] Incivility is distinct from aggression.