North American Perspectives on Hostile Behaviors and Bullying at Work

Doing Sensitive Research Sensitively: Ethical and Methodological Issues in Researching Workplace Bullying

“…Reflecting (broadly) the national demographic profile of the teaching profession (Drudy, 2009), there was a gender split of 20:4, female to male. Given the ongoing debate regarding definitions of workplace bullying (Keashly & Jagatic, 2011), no excluding criteria were applied, except that participants considered that they had been the targets of ongoing campaigns of bullying and harassment in their respective schools. A semi-structured interview framework was employed, thus allowing for, and encouraging, interviewees to be fully participative in the interview process (Elliott, 2005), raising issues that were considered to be pertinent (Dawson, 2009) and, as observed by Davies and Gannon (2006), giving clues as to their subjective view of the world.…”

An Operative Measure of Workplace Bullying: The Negative Acts Questionnaire Across Italian Companies

“…However, Ijime has been related to research on bullying in school-aged, whereas other specific problems related to death or suicide due to overwork such as Karōshi and Karōjisatsu have been traditionally explored in organizational settings in Japan and other Asian countries 17) . Regarding the US, bullying is related to other terms such as generalized workplace abuse/harassment, emotional abuse, or interpersonal mistreatment at workplace (for a review, see 18) ). Finally, the concepts of bullying (which implies individual acts of harassment directed towards another individual) and mobbing (which implies abusive behavior from a group to an individual) have been used in several European countries (e.g., 19) ).…”

Workplace mobbing: How the victim’s coping behavior influences bystander responses

“…From a social interactionist perspective, bystanders are actors in the process of workplace mobbing (Namie & Lutgen-Sandvik, 2010), although their role in this process is still unclear (Keashly & Jagatic, 2011). Bystanders can take various positions in the mobbing process, ranging from helping the bully to helping the victim (Paull et al, 2012).…”