How, When, and Why Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel: Negative Group Members and Dysfunctional Groups

By Will Felps, Terence R. Mitchell, E. Byington. 2006

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A Review and Integration of Team Composition Models (2014, background): “In short, negative members can exert a very high disproportionate influence on team activities and effectiveness, and their presence should be considered in team composition frameworks (Felps et al., 2006).”
Exploring the Relationships Between Perceived Coworker Loafing and Counterproductive Work Behaviors: The Mediating Role of a Revenge Motive (2009, background): “Moreover, the mechanism linking interpersonal antecedents to CWB has not been clarified in past studies (Burk-Lee and Spector 2006; Felps et al. 2006 ).”
Social influence of a coworker: A test of the effect of employee and coworker exchange ideologies on employees’ exchange qualities. (2011, unknown): “According to Rozin and Royzman (2001) and Felps, Mitchell, and Byington (2006), individuals tend to outweigh negative information over positive information and negative information is likely to be more contagious than positive information.”
Motivating Organizations to Learn (2015, background): “In other words, the study of change and sustainability of collective GOs from a bottom-up perspective is sorely needed in this field of research (e.g., bad apples; Felps et al., 2006).”
Exploring Cyberbullying and Other Toxic Behavior in Team Competition Online Games (2015, background): “More generally, Felps et al. discuss how a single negative member can bring group-level dysfunction [25].”
Workplace Bullying In Academia: A Canadian Study (2008, result): “This finding confirms the research of Felps et al .( 2006) that a single, toxic team member, a bad apple, may be a catalyst for group-level dysfunction.”
Overlooked but not untouched: How rudeness reduces onlookers’ performance on routine and creative tasks (2009, background): “Recently Felps, Mitchell, and Byington (2006) theorized and provided strong evidence from ample studies suggesting that a negative and a destructive team member can have detrimental effect on team processes such as cooperation and cohesion.”
Can employees be emotionally drained by witnessing unpleasant interactions between coworkers? A diary study of induced emotion regulation (2012, background): “Felps, Mitchell, and Byington (2006) highlighted how dyadic exchanges in an organization can enable a single ‘‘bad apple’’ to have a profound negative impact on others.”