Justifying new employees’ trials by fire: workplace hazing

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the explanatory effects of the system justification theory on reactions to new employee hazing. Design/methodology/approach Three studies ( N = 107, 121 and 128), all using experimental assignment, vignettes of workplace hazing and two-level repeated measures ANCOVA designs, with dispositional variables included as covariates and justification of workplace hazing processes as dependent variables, were...