Is workplace rudeness on the rise?
- Written by Shannon G. Taylor, Associate Professor of Management, University of Central Florida
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You don’t have to look hard to see uncivil behavior these days, whether in political discourse, in college classrooms or on airplanes. One study found that rudeness is even contagious, like the common cold.
The workplace, where my research is focused, is hardly immune from this so-called incivility...