Dysfunction in the workplace affects women differently than men. This book represents a broad spectrum of disciplines including law, management, communications, human resource management and industrial/organisational psychology and offers cross-disciplinary inquiries into the many roles gender plays in organizational dysfunction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gender and sex differences in the forms of workplace aggression / Joel H. Neuman -- Gender differences in aggression and counterproductive work behavior / Paul E. Spector -- The role of gender and attributional style in counterproductive aggressive work behaviors / Jeremy Mackey and Mark J. Martinko -- Priming, painting, peeling, and polishing: constructing and deconstructing the woman-bullying-woman identity at work / Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, Elizabeth A. Dickinson and Karen A. Foss -- Workplace bullying and gender: it's complicated / Loraleigh Keashly -- The so-called "equal opportunity bully'"s effect on women in the workplace / Kerri Lynn Stone -- Selective incivility: gender, race, and the discriminatory workplace / Dana Kabat-Farr and Lilia M. Cortina -- Observing sexual harassment at work: a gendered extension of a gendered construct / Tara C. Reich and M. Sandy Hershcovis -- Sexual orientation harassment: an integrative review with directions for future research / Shaun Pichler -- Sex or gender? The enigma of women's elevated absenteeism / Eric Patton and Gary Johns -- Occupational mental health: a study of nurses in Argentina / Terri R. Lituchy [and others] -- Job attitudes in an anglophone Caribbean country: the case of Barbados / Betty Jane Punnett [and others].