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 burgeoning field. Renamed to more accurately reflect the maturing of the discipline, Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition provides a much-needed update of the original work. Edited by leading experts and presenting contributions from pioneers in their respective subject areas, the book is an up-to-date research-based resource on key aspects of workplace bullying and its remediation.
New chapters include:
Rehabilitation and Treatment of Victims of Bullying
Interventions for the Prevention and Management of Workplace Bullying
Bullying and Discrimination
An Industrial Relation Perspective on Workplace Bullying
Investigating Complaints of workplace bullying
Whistleblowing and Workplace bullying
How to Measure Exposure to Workplace Bullying in Surveys
Extensively Revised Chapters include:
Perspectives on hostile behaviors and Workplace bullying
Empirical Findings on Bullying at Work
Organizational Antecedents of Bullying
Organizational effects of workplace bullying
Counseling targets of bullying
Bullying and the Law
The book presents a comprehensive review of the literature, the empirical findings, the theoretical developments, and the experience and advice of leading international academics and practitioners. It examines the concept of bullying and harassment at work and its measurement, documenting the existence and consequences of the problem. The book explores a variety of explanatory models and presents available empirical evidence that sheds light on where, when, and why bullying develops. It contains a wide range of contributions on the possible remedies for prevention and minimization of the problem for management when it occurs, and for healing the wounds and scars it may have left on those exposed.
