The political realm has long served as a venue for conflict among individuals and groups with widely different opinions on important public policy issues. A new study indicates that the worksite is not immune to the expression of opposing points of view. As noted in the results of a study published in the August 2019 issue of the journal Stress & Health, the workplace is an environment where individuals have little choice about with whom they interact. As such, employees may find themselves engaged in conversations with co-workers whose political opinions and perspectives are divergent from their own. The investigation examined how co-workers' dissimilarity in political identity is related to the quality of their interpersonal interactions and subsequent well‐being. The authors predicted that political identity dissimilarity is associated with experiences of workplace incivility and, in turn, declines in psychological and occupational well‐being. Hypotheses were tested in a four‐wave survey study conducted during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. The results indicated that political identity dissimilarity was associated with increased reports of incivility experiences instigated by co-workers, which in turn, was associated with increased burnout and turnover intentions and diminished job satisfaction. Several practical implications for organizations are offered in the manuscript.
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