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Sexual Boundary Violations: Exploring How the Interplay Between Violations, Retributive, and Restorative Responses Affects Teams

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  • Eva Baarle

    (Military Ethics and Philosophy at the Netherlands Defence Academy
    Amsterdam UMC, VU University Amsterdam)

  • Steven Baarle

    (VU University Amsterdam)

  • Guy Widdershoven

    (Amsterdam UMC, VU University Amsterdam)

  • Roland Bal

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Jan-Willem Weenink

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Abstract

Studying and discussing boundary violations between people is important for potentially averting future harm. Organizations typically respond to boundary violations in retributive ways, by punishing the perpetrator. Interestingly, prior research has largely ignored the impact of sexual boundary violations and retributive dynamics on teams. This is problematic as teams provide an obvious setting not only to detect and discuss troubling behavior by peers, but also for learning how to prevent future harm. Therefore, in this study we explore team-level experiences regarding sexual boundary violations and organizational responses to these incidents. Drawing on an in-depth case study, our findings shed light on the profound negative consequences of a retributive organizational response to sexual boundary violations. Additionally, our findings show how a restorative approach, inviting teams to reflect on the violations and their impact, can help teams to recover. Our main contribution involves a model that demonstrates how the interplay between sexual boundary violations, retributive, and restorative organizational responses affects teams. This model shows how combining these responses can acknowledge distress within teams, heal relationships between team members through dialogue, and open up the possibility to learn from these events. This model extends prior research focusing on individual actions and outcomes regarding violations. Additionally, by combining retributive and restorative organizational responses in one model, we extend the literature on restorative organizational responses to boundary violations.

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  • Eva Baarle & Steven Baarle & Guy Widdershoven & Roland Bal & Jan-Willem Weenink, 2024. "Sexual Boundary Violations: Exploring How the Interplay Between Violations, Retributive, and Restorative Responses Affects Teams," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 191(1), pages 131-146, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:191:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1007_s10551-023-05408-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05408-x
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