Current Priority Projects

Work injuries are a major concern for employees, organizations, and society at large. While injuries are routinely experienced, we have little understanding of their impact on return to work and post-return work functioning, and of the mechanisms underlying these effects.

A growing body of research shows that rudeness negatively affects individual functioning and performance. Considerably less is known about how rudeness affects team processes and outcomes. In a series of six studies aimed at extending theories of the social-cognitive implications of rudeness to the team level, we show that rudeness is detrimental to team functioning.