Moral Content in Workplace Conflict

Using moral foundations theory and text analysis tools, two studies are proposed to explore moral content in different types of workplace conflicts. Word count of moral foundation terms in notes available in the website “passiveaggressivenotes.com” (Study 1) and narratives of conflicts provided by MTurk participants (Study 2) would be text-analyzed to uncover moral content differences across the three types of conflict – relationship, process, and task conflict. These studies advance moral content as a significant differentiator of the three types of workplace conflict.