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Bullying in Organizations

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Synonyms

Coercion; Extortion; Hectoring; Imperious; Intimidation; Overbearing

Definition

A situation in which one or more persons, over a long period, perceive themselves to be on the receiving end of systematic negative treatment by one or more other persons, and where the person or persons exposed have difficulty defending themselves (Matthiesen and Einarsen 2007: 735).

Bullying is an escalated process, where the person confronted ends up in an inferior position, and becomes the target of systematic negative social acts (Einarsen et al. 2011: 22).

A repeated, health-harming, mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators, that is, threatening, humiliating, or intimidating, or work-interference, that prevents work getting done (The Workplace Bullying Institute).

Introduction

The past few years have witnessed the rise of workplace bullying in both public and private sector organizations. It has led to the development of social movements, such as Me Too,...

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Ohemeng, F.L.K. (2020). Bullying in Organizations. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3425-1

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