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More About This Title Getting Even: The Truth About Workplace Revenge -And How to Stop It
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The core argument is that revenge is about justice. Avenging employees are not unprofessional, out-of-control employees; rather, they are victims of offenses who feel compelled to seek justice on their own. The authors address specific questions, such as:
- What kinds of offenses result in revenge?
- Why do some victims respond more aggressively to harm than others?
- What role does the organization play in how victims respond to offenses?
- What's the best advice for managers who wish to prevent their employees from seeking revenge?
- Most employees experience the desire for revenge, and are ready to settle their own scores at work when management won't enforce justice.
This book offers a model that sequences avengers' thoughts and behaviors, from the beginning of the conflict to its end. The model is grounded in scientific research and organizes disparate findings into a whole.
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Bies has received several teaching awards, including the Best Teacher award at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. At Georgetown, he has twice received the Joseph Le Moine Award for Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Excellence at the McDonough School of Business, and he received the Outstanding Professor of the International Executive MBA Program (IEMBA-2) at the McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in organizational behavior, and a B.A. in business administration and an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.
Thomas M. Tripp is a professor of management and operations at Washington State University. Professor Tripp has published dozens of research articles in scientific journals on the subject of workplace conflict and organizational justice. Currently, he is chair of the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management, the professional association of nearly twenty thousand management professors. He also serves on the editorial boards of Negotiations and Conflict Management Research, International Journal of Conflict Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Management.
Tripp has taught courses in leadership skills and in negotiation skills. He has twice received the award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching from WSU’s College of Business. He also won the Students’Award for Teaching Excellence from theWSU Vancouver campus students. Finally, he was inducted into WSU’s Teaching Academy as one of twelve inaugural members, and served as its vice chair.
He received a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a B.S. in psychology from the University of Washington. Born and raised in Seattle, he continues to live in the Pacific Northwest.
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1. An Introduction to Revenge in the Workplace.
2. Peering into the Soul of Discontent: The Phenomenon of Revenge.
3. Three Triggers of Revenge: Why People Try to Get Even.
4. You Started It! The Mind Game Inside the Blame Game.
5. "I'm as Mad as Hell and I’m not Going to Take It Anymore!": Understanding the Motivating Power of Righteous Anger.
6. You Started It—But I’ll Finish It! How People Get Even.
7. Preventing Revenge Before It Happens: Practical Advice for Managers—And Would-Be Avengers.
8. Moving Beyond Revenge: Don’t Get Mad, Don’t Get Even—Get Ahead.
Bibliography.
Notes.
About the Authors.
Index.
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—Globe and Mail, April 22, 2009
"Don't buy this book if you think it's a good source of really devilish and totally untraceable ways to get the revenge you so totally deserve…the authors seem intent in decreasing the amount of revenge that gets expressed in our daily work lives. Managers, too, will learn how to nip workplace revenge in the bud…"
—Work Daze, February 19, 2009
"The authors find that, for many, workplace revenge is about justice and restoring the balance of what they think is fair and right. The duo offers managers advice on how they can prevent their employees from seeking revenge. Grounded in 15 years of research, including more than 500 interviews with managers and workers about on-the-job revenge and retaliation, Bies and Tripp use lively anecdotes to illustrate the ways in which employees get even."
—Georgetown University’s Blue and Gray, February 23, 2009
