If you are being bullied at work, or have a friend or colleague experiencing problems with bullying, you can speak in confidence to your University counselling service, bullying advisor, or Human Resources department. Some universities also run confidential staff help lines to deal with work difficulties.

Alternatively, you may want to contact one of the following organisations that also deal with bullying.

If you’re currently being bullied, or were bullied in the past...

Success Unlimited creates books and training schemes to help combat bullying: http://www.successunlimited.co.uk

Bully Online is the largest resource on workplace bullying – contains case information, guidance and support http://www.bullyonline.org

Life After Bullying offers support to people who’ve been bullied in the past http://www.lifeafteradultbullying.com/index.html

Just fight on! Contains information about your rights, coping with bullying and surviving bullying http://www.jfo.org.uk

The Andrea Adams Trust is a UK charity dedicated to dealing with workplace bullying http://www.andreaadamstrust.org

Bullied Teachers is a support group for those working in all areas of education http://www.bulliedteachers.org.uk

The Samaritans can offer a listening ear if you want to share your worries or concerns http://www.samaritans.org.uk

The Research Companion forum has a section to discuss researcher and academic safety and wellbeing, including bullying http://www.psypress.co.uk/boynton/forum

Worldwide links to bullying organisations – this page provides links to global bullying support groups http://www.bullyonline.org/resources/links.htm

Bullying at work

Bully in sight: how to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying, Tim Field, Success Unlimited, 1996, ISBN 0952912104. Foreword by Diana Lamplugh OBE. An insider's view which validates the experience of bullying, identifies the serial bully, and describes the injury to health caused by bullying and harassment. Fourth printing. Over 11,000 copies sold. [Order a signed copy]

Bullying at Work, Andrea Adams with Neil Crawford, Virago, 1992, ISBN 1-85381-542-X. The seminal (original) book on workplace bullying.

Mobbing: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace, Davenport, Schwartz, and Elliott, Civil Society Publishing, July 1999, ISBN 0-9671803-0-9. Cost $14.95 ($21.95 in Canada); can be ordered directly from BookMasters Inc, PO Box 388, Ashland, OH 44805, USA, Tel (800) 247-6553, e-mail order@bookmaster.com or through your local bookstore.

Fighting Back: overcoming bullying in the workplace, David Graves, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-709951-6

The Dragon Complex: strategies for identifying and conquering workplace abuse, Winnifred Taylor PhD, Patrick C Dorin PhD, John Taylor PhD

Bullying in the Workplace - an occupational Hazard, Helene Richards and Sheila Freeman, HarperCollins, May 2002.

Dignity at Work: Eliminate Bullying and Create a Positive Working Environment, Pauline Rennie Peyton, Brunner-Routledge, September 2003

Abuse in the Workplace: Management Remedies and Bottom Line Impact, Emily S. Bassman, Quorum, 1992, Westport, CT, ISBN 0-8993-0673-X

Brutal Bosses and their Prey: How to Identify and Overcome Abuse in the Workplace, Harvey A Hornstein,
Riverhead Books, New York, 1996, ISBN 0-57322-586-X, pbk

Adult bullying: perpetrators and victims, Peter Randall, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-12673-8.

Bullying in Adulthood: assessing the bullies and their victims, Peter Randall, Brunner-Routledge, 2001, ISBN 0415236932

Corporate Hyenas at Work! How to spot and outwit them by being Hyenawise, Susan Marais and Magriet Herman, Kagiso Publishers, November 1997, R75.00, ISBN 0-7986-4885-6.

The Verbally Abusive Relationship: how to recognize it and how to respond, Patricia Evans, Adams, ISBN 1-55850-582-2. Recommended, especially if you're dealing with a psychologically violent partner, co-worker, or manager.

Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal with People Who Try to Control You, Patricia Evans, to be published 31 January 2002.

Silent Hell: workplace violence and bullying, Dr Charmaine Hockley, March 2002, ISBN 1-876087-54-4, for details and order form email charmainehockley@ozemail.com.au

Harassment, Bullying and Violence at Work, Angela Ishmael with Bunmi Alemoru, 1999, ISBN 1-85835-104-9

Bullying and sexual harassment, Tina Stephens, IPD, 1999, £9.99, ISBN 0-8529282-5-4

Bullying in the workplace: an organisational toolkit, Elaine Douglas, Gower Publishing, 2001, £95, ISBN 0-566-08408-2 (paperback) or ISBN 0-566-08275-6 (loose-leaf)

Bully Off!, Jo Clifton and Heather Serdar, Russell House Publishing, 2000, ISBN 1-898944-66-X, £14.95 + £1.50 p&p, 91pages A4 spiral bound for easy photocopying. Email help@russellhouse.co.uk, tel 01297 443948

The Bullying Culture [in the NHS], Ruth Hadikin and Muriel O'Driscoll, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, ISBN 0-7506-5201

Bully Proof, Jean Kelly, Aurora Books (Aurorabk@aol.com), 1999, £9.99, ISBN 0-9535314-0-6

Work abuse: how to recognize and survive it, Wyatt & Hare, Schenkman Books, 1997, $19.95, ISBN 0-87047-109-0 [For details email schenkma@sover.net; Schenkman's web site is at http://www.sover.net/~schenkma/]

Bullyproof yourself at work! Personal strategies to stop the hurt from harassment, Gary Namie PhD & Ruth Namie PhD, DoubleDoc Press, 1999, ISBN 0966862953

Workplace Bullying, Charlotte Rayner, Helge Hoel and Cary Cooper, October 2001, Taylor & Francis, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, Tel +44 (0)8700 768853 or +44 (0)1264 343 071, email Elizabeth Lyell for an order form.

Bullying: From Backyard to Boardroom, McCarthy-Sheehan-Wilkie (Eds), Federation Press, May 2001, [UK/Europe: Blackstone Press, tel 0208 740 1173; fax 0208 743 2292; New Zealand: Dunmore Press. tel +6 358 7169, fax + 6 357 9242; North America: Wm W Gaunt & Son. tel + 800 942 8683, fax +813 778 5252] [More details at http://cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au/bba/]

Breaking the silence: overcoming the problem of principal mistreatment of teachers, Joseph Blase and Jo Blase, Corwin Press, August 2002

Eliminating professors: a guide to the dismissal process, Kenneth Westhues, Kempner Collegium Publications, 1998, ISBN 0-7734-8210-5. See description at http://www.bullybusters.org/home/twd/books/eliminating.html

Bullying, Issues, Volume 13, a concise, comprehensive and readable overview of child and adult bullying by leading authorities. Independence Educational Publishers, PO Box 295, Cambridge CB1 3XP, UK, Tel +44 (0)1223 566130 Fax +44 (0)1223 566131, credit card orders +44 (0)1223 576435

Stop mobbing. Resistere alla violenza psicologica sul posto di lavoro (Stop mobbing. Resisting psychological violence at work), Antonio A. Casilli, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2000. In Italian. Foreword by Paul McCarthy from the Australian Beyond Bullying Association. Antonio A. Casilli, MAP book series Editor, DeriveApprodi Srl, via Visso 12-14, 00157 - Rome, Italy. To order copy of the book: tel +39 06 4121 9614, fax +39 06 4124 9505, email derive.approdi@libero.it, website: http://www.ecn.org/deriveapprodi

New! De onde og de dumme (The Evil and the Stupid), Anne-Grete Jelstrup and Hans-Otto Loldrup. In Danish. Deals with destructive management from experiences of the interviewed persons.

Managing Britannia, Robert Protherough and John Pick deals with the destructive feature of managerialism, the culture and management in modern Britain. March 2002, The Brynmill Press Ltd

Unshrink The People establishes the clear link between happy employees, satisfied customers, profitable companies, growing economies and healthy societies

ERIC_NO: EJ613798
TITLE: The Emotional Reactions of School Bullies and Their Victims.
AUTHOR: Borg, Mark G.
PUBLICATION_DATE: 1998
JOURNAL_CITATION: Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology; v18 n4 p433-44 Dec 1998
ABSTRACT: Investigates the emotional reactions associated with the bullying incident as reported by self-declared bullies and their victims, the behavioral reactions of victims, and the role of pupil sex and school level differences in emotional and behavioral reactions. Reports that victims experienced feelings of vengefulness, anger, and self-pity; bullies were sorry or indifferent. (CMK)
DESCRIPTORS: *Age; *Bullying; Comparative Analysis; Elementary Secondary Education; *Emotional Response; Foreign Countries; Help Seeking; *Questionnaires; *Sex Role; *Student Behavior
IDENTIFIERS: Malta
PUBLICATION_TYPE: 080; 143
CLEARINGHOUSE_NO: SO532847
ISSN: ISSN-0144-3410
LANGUAGE: English
ERIC_ISSUE: CIJMAR2001

ERIC_NO: EJ522591
TITLE: Profile of a Bully: Who Would Do Such a Thing?
AUTHOR: Horne, Arthur M.; Socherman, Robert
PUBLICATION_DATE: 1996
JOURNAL_CITATION: Educational Horizons; v74 n2 p77-83 Win 1996
ABSTRACT: Because bullying affects school climate, schools and parents must address it by collaboratively developing guidelines for zero tolerance, effective monitoring, well-publicized consequences, and supports for the parents of both victims and aggressors. (SK)
DESCRIPTORS: *Aggression; Behavior Problems; *Educational Environment; *Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Parent Participation; *Prevention
IDENTIFIERS: *Bullying
PUBLICATION_TYPE: 120; 080
CLEARINGHOUSE_NO: CE529252
REPORT_NO: ISSN-0013-175X
LANGUAGE: English

Workplace violence: the dark side of organisational life

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Sandra Speedy
Emeritus Professor, Graduate College of Management, Southern Cross University, Lismore, New South Wales

Abstract

This paper draws on a diverse range of research literature addressing workplace violence, which constitutes one component of the dark side of organisational life. This selective review of the literature has been drawn from the disciplines of nursing, management, psychology and organisational culture. The paper focuses bullying and mobbing in the workplace, addressing its types, causes, the characteristics of bullies and targets and the generalised impact of bullying and mobbing. It also examines whether there are gender issues pertinent to the health care sector. Consideration will also be given to the impact on the individual, group and organization, given the apparent epidemic proportions workplace violence has reached. Ultimately, the question will arise: how can the workplace violence be abolished, specifically within the health care sector, given that we live in a global environment characterised by international bullying (Crawford 1999)? This is a challenge because workplace violence is perpetuated within organisations, due either to cultures of acceptance, or fear of retribution should it be acknowledged and acted upon (or both).

Books

Bully in sight: how to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying. Tim Field (Success Unlimited).

Bullying at work: how to confront and overcome it. Andrea Adams (Virago).

Surviving Stress at work: understand it, overcome it. Melanie King (Trafford). Contains information about being bullied, as well on tips for getting a new job and building confidence.

Chapter Six of The Research Companion: a practical guide for the social and health sciences. Petra Boynton (Psychology Press) contains information of dealing with bullying in academia.

The bully at work: what you can do. Gary and Ruth Namie (Sourcebooks).

Fighting back: how to fight bullying in the workplace. David Graves (McGraw Hill).