Bullying Media Presentation

Bullying in the Workplace

When is it a prank and when is it abuse?

What Exactly is Bullying?

Bullying Behavior

Types of Workplace Bullying

High Turnover Low Productivity Lost Innovation Hostile Work

Environment Expensive Insurance

Premiums & Court Costs Destruction of Company

Reputation & Culture

Why is Bullying a Problem?

BULLIES

Bad for Business!!

Too Expensive to Keep!

Americans Support Anti – Bullying

Legislation

Bullying is Legal

Bullies are Bosses

Bullies are Low-Ranking

More Prevalent then

Illegal Harassment

Workers are Bullied

How common?

35%

4X72%18%

80%

64%

“Triangular Model of Workplace Bullying”

The Bully Model – Gender Attribution

The New Cancer

The Scholastic Perspective

Media Example

Possible Solutions

Remember…

“Those that can, do.

Those that can’t, Bully.”

~ Tim Field

Brunner, P.W., & Costello, M.L. (2003) When the wrong woman wins: Building bullies and perpetuating patriarch. Advancing Women in

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Glendinning, P. (2001). Workplace Bullying: Curing the Cancer of the American Workplace. Public Personnel Management 30, 269-285.

Harvey, M. G., Heames, J. T., Richey, R. G., & Leonard, N. (2006) Bullying: From the playground to the boardroom. Journal of Leadership

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Organizational Studies, 12, 1-11. doi: 10.1177/107179190601200401

McAvoy, B. R., & Murtagh, J. (2003). Workplace bullying: The silent epidemic. British Medical Journal, 326, 776-777. doi: 10.1136/bmj

326.7393.776

Salin, D. (2001). Prevalence and forms of bullying among business professionals: A comparison of two different strategies for measuring

bullying. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 10, 425-441. doi: 10.1080/13594320143000771

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