TITLE:
The Relationship between Neuroticism and Experience of Workplace Ostracism in New Employees
AUTHORS:
Xiang Zhang, Liangtie Dai
KEYWORDS:
Neuroticism, Workplace Ostracism, Interpersonal Trust, Task Interdependence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.3 No.2,
January
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: The experience of workplace ostracism describes the extent to which an individual perceives that he or she is ignored or excluded at work. This article explores the intermediary and regulatory role of interpersonal trust and task interdependence, in order to identify how neuroticism affects new employees’ experience of workplace ostracism. By using the data from 410 new enterprise staffs, the result shows that neuroticism positively affects the experience of workplace ostracism, and that interpersonal trust plays an intermediate role. The lower the task interdependence scores are, the stronger the relationship between neuroticism and experience of workplace ostracism will be.