{"id":495,"date":"2021-03-24T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T12:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/mental-health\/?p=495"},"modified":"2026-01-14T10:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:06:14","slug":"witnessing-workplace-aggression-and-leader-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/2021\/witnessing-workplace-aggression-and-leader-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing Workplace Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Witnessing Workplace Aggression\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong>Witnessing Workplace Aggression<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research findings indicate that employees who endure aggression at work often experience detrimental outcomes, but are the effects even more widespread than current evidence suggests? <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/psychology\/people\/kate-dupre\/\">Dr. Kathryne Dupr\u00e9<\/a> and her colleagues explored this question and found that those who are not direct targets of aggression, but who see or hear about it happening to others, also experience reduced health and job outcomes as a result of their exposure to aggression at work. Results from this study indicate that the effects of aggression are pervasive, and thus provide impetus to further develop policies and practices aimed at reducing aggression at work, and at providing resources to all of those who have been exposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read more about this research here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0886260513518841\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0886260513518841<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witnessing Workplace Aggression &nbsp; Research findings indicate that employees who endure aggression at work often experience detrimental outcomes, but are the effects even more widespread than current evidence suggests? Dr. Kathryne Dupr\u00e9 and her colleagues explored this question and found that those who are not direct targets of aggression, but who see or hear about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wellness-wednesday"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}