Workplace Bullying and Harassment Resources: Bullying Resources

This study aims to measure the impact of workplace bullying on work engagement in terms of employee silence and knowledge sharing. It also helps to explain how psychological contract breach moderates the bullying-silence relationship. For this study, data is collected from 384 early-career employees having experience up to three years from seven banks of Lahore, Pakistan. Findings of this study reveals that workplace bullying has a positive relationship with employee silence and negative relationship with work engagement.

This article aims to review the literature to explore whether trauma is among the symptoms experienced by individuals exposed to mobbing. Mobbing, defined as repeated psychological harassment in the workplace, is a prolonged process rather than a single incident. Those subjected to mobbing often exhibit various physical and psychological symptoms. Numerous studies in the literature indicate that mobbing can lead to the development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trauma, characterized by its sudden onset and life-threatening impact, significantly harms individuals.

Roxanne Gay discusses a familiar situation at work where bullying and harassment must be confronted / managed.

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This study defines contrapower harassment in academia as student incivility, bullying, and sexual atten-tion aimed at faculty. A U.S., Alaskan sample of 399 professors (50% women, 88% white) at the state’s largest public university was surveyed about their experience with contrapower harassment. Although men reported more ...
sexual attention from students and comparable levels of
student incivility–bullying, women reported that such behaviors were more upsetting and had a greater negative impact on their health and work-lives

Like other workplaces, bullying occurs in academia. Additionally, women report more frequent and severe forms of bullying than men. The purpose of this qualitative study was to unearth women academics’ learning because of being bullied. We discuss the learning context and explore the learning that occurred. Understanding these factors can augment the literature on bullying in academia.

Hostile online communication is a global concern. Academic research and teaching staff are among those professionals who routinely give public comments and are thus vulnerable to online attacks. This social psychological and criminological study investigated online
harassment victimization among university researchers and teachers. Survey participants (N = 2,492) were university research and teaching staff members from five major universi- ties in Finland. Victimization was assessed with a 20-item inventory.

There are reports of poor working conditions for early and mid-career academics (EMCAs) in universities, however, empirical data using validated tools are scarce. We conducted an online, cross-sectional survey using validated tools to assess workplace satisfaction, exposure to workplace abuse, and mental health. Participants included employees of medical and health faculties of two of the largest Australian universities, surveyed between October 2020 and January 2021.Overall, 284 participants responded. Many reported job insecurity: half (50.7%) working on contracts with less than one remaining year.

Community colleges have provided an entree into higher education for many women. Yet, women faculty perceive the overall climate of community colleges as "chilly." To deconstruct the interpersonal dynamics that may lead to perceptions of a chilly climate, this study examines the prevalence of workplace bullying among and between community college faulty.

Abstract Bullying involvement in any form can have lasting physical and emotional consequences for adolescents. For programs and policies to best safeguard youth, it is important to understand prevalence of bullying across cyber and traditional contexts. We conducted a thorough review of the literature and identified 80 studies that reported corresponding prevalence rates for cyber and traditional bullying and/or aggression in adolescents. Weighted mean effect sizes were calculated, and measurement features were entered as moderators to explain variation in prevalence rates and in traditional–cyber correlations within the sample of studies