ABSTRACT
Faculty-to-faculty incivility is a common occurrence in academia and presents deleterious outcomes for those targeted by such behaviours. Although a growing stream of research has helped to shed light on the different factors that contribute to this phenomenon in academia, research has yet to examine what role, if any, student evaluations play in the occurrence of faculty-to-faculty incivility. In this chapter, we draw from a social communication framework and its extensions, and past research to provide a theoretical examination of how students' RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) evaluations may serve as an antecedent of faculty-to-faculty incivility. In our discussion, we also proffer directions for future research by identifying and discussing conceptually, how two factors – other faculty's attitudes towards RMP student evaluations and the gender of the targeted faculty – may influence the noted relationship. Ultimately, our goal in this chapter is to extend the faculty-to-faculty incivility by presenting a theoretical basis for future research's examination of RMP student evaluations as an antecedent of faculty-to-faculty incivility.
