Bullying in the workplace is a phenomenon that has recently intrigued researchers studying management and organizational issues, leading to such questions as why it occurs and what causes such harassment. This volume written by experts in a wide range of fields including Industrial and Organizational psychology, Counseling, Management, Law, Education and Health presents research on relational and social aggression issues which can result in lost productivity , employee turnover and costly lawsuits. Understanding this phenomenon is important to managers and employee morale.
This book will help readers to understand and to define workplace bullying to be able to prevent, detect, remedy and eliminate workplace bullying. Readers will gain an understanding of the forms, causes and effects of workplace bullying.
As the philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” The time has come for you to do something, and this book shows you how.
Previously titled Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice, the first edition of this bestselling resource quickly became a benchmark and highly cited source of knowledge for this ...
This is a book written about workplace bullying which is a rapidly growing phenomenon In the workplace.
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targets because the behavioural fault is with the bully's response, although the target's work will be made the issue. A display of anger is not the correct response, however, to those who do not meet our private criteria for what makes ...
This book showcases empirical studies on workplace bullying from a range of Asian countries, including China, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and Vietnam, and is ...
Targets have described their tormenters as “devils,” “witches,” “demons,” and “owners” and have depicted their coworkers as wildly cheering, bloodthirsty spectators.[5] Their willingness to “tough it out” only exacerbates their symptoms ...
Available at: www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/21295075 [accessed 29 September 2013]. ... [accessed 31 August 2014]. ... 19 March 2015]. Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). 2010. Avoiding and Dealing with Harassment [Online]. June 2014.
"A landmark book that blazed light on one of the business world's dirtiest secrets, The Bully at Work exposed the destructive, silent epidemic of workplace bullying that devastates the lives, careers, and families of millions.