...Dianne Gardner; Maree Roche; Tim Bentley; Helena Cooper-Thomas; Bevan Catley; Stephen Teo; Linda Trenberth Purpose Workplace bullying involves a power imbalance, and despite laws in New Zealand which prohibit discrimination on the grounds of gender, women remain under-represented in top-level...

...Thomas Kalliath; Parveen Kalliath; Merle Tambur; Maaja Vadi Purpose The aim of the study is to explore how organizational culture influences occurrences of workplace bullying in Estonia as a post‐transitional country. Another objective is to produce comprehensive empirical evidence of bullying...

..., with only one specific variable in the model showing any significant relationship with bullying, may indicate that bullying is more a consequence of the total risk factors than related to specific factors, on an individual or team level. Hence, it is the additive effect of the factors that matters more than...

... is the first attempt to empirically analyze the relationship between mobbing and health at Spanish workplaces. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Spain Workplace Bullying Harassment Employees Health Bullying at workplace Moral harassment Bivariate Probit model Mobbing was quite...

...Mona Berthelsen; Anders Skogstad; Bjørn Lau; Ståle Einarsen Purpose This study aims to explore relationships between exposure to bullying at work and intention to leave the organisation, actual leaving the workplace, and exclusion from working life through sick leave or rehabilitation...

...Bella L. Galperin Angela   Ishmael . Harassment, Bullying and Violence at Work . London : The Industrial Society   1999 . 317 pp. , ISBN: 1‐85835‐104‐9 © MCB UP Limited 2002 --> Harassment Bullying Violence Corporate culture Work The nature...

... of violence and bullying and provides effective strategies to prevent violence and bullying in the workplace. Although the author acknowledges that employees may be victimized by fellow co‐workers, the discussion focuses on employees who are threatened and attacked by clients or members of the public...

...Michael Sheehan This article outlines some of the signs indicating bullying in the workplace as a problem within contemporary organisations. Moreover, using evidence from recent Australian Court cases, the article mentions some of the costs organisations may be faced with if they fail to address...

...Ståle Einarsen The present paper reviews and summarises the research and literature on the nature and causes of bullying at work. Bullying occurs when someone at work is systematically subjected to aggressive behaviour from one or more colleagues or superiors over a long period of time...

...David Archer This paper is drawn from a research project into the influences of power and culture on bullying and harassment within the Fire Service, conducted using fire brigades of similar background from the UK, the USA and Eire. It discovered bullying within the Fire Service in two contexts...

... bullying, this article suggests that definitional boundaries ought to be all encompassing and open for discussion as a way of further developing the debate about workplace bullying. A discussion of methodological approaches, including those used by the authors in the theoretical section then follows...

...Michael Sheehan; Michelle Barker; Charlotte Rayner This article provides a brief overview of some of the applied approaches being taken in four countries to deal with workplace bullying and serves as a preamble to the articles by Archer, Crawford, Lewis, Sheehan and Zapf in this section. The work...

...Charlotte Rayner This paper relates research on workplace bullying to the prevention measures which an organisation might consider implementing. The implications of collecting research information only from targets of bullying is highlighted, and discussed in relation to identifying bullies...

...Neil Crawford Bullying behaviour has always been part of the human condition. On a global level we have witnessed fairly overt domination even recently. Its visibility level is not so obvious in current workplace practices but its existence is in no doubt. More subtle, less detectable actions...

...Dieter Zapf This article investigates the causes of mobbing (bullying) at work. Mobbing is defined as a severe form of social stressors at work. Unlike “normal” social stressors, mobbing is a long lasting, escalated conflict with frequent harassing actions systematically aimed at a target person...

...Duncan Lewis This paper reports on an exploratory study on workplace bullying in further education and higher educational institutions in Wales. Coverage of the study compared perceptions and experiences across six areas: workplace bullying, sexual harassment, racial harassment, sex discrimination...

...Andy P.D. Liefooghe; Ragnar Olafsson When a new field is explored, a variety of approaches can be used to clarify, identify and explain the phenomenon at hand. Traditional psychological research attributes a quasi‐physical quality to the bullying phenomenon, and attempts to capture it by rigorous...