An Investigation of Aggression and Bullying in the Workplace

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2011 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous grade: none Northcentral University course: Bullying in the workplace language: English abstract: ABSTACT:Workplace bullying has been studied extensively in the United States Austria Germany Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.Previous studies of bullying have focused on types of bullying (Einarsen Hoel Zapf & Cooper 2003; Keashly 1998; Pearson Andersson & Wegner 2001) frequency of bullying (Zapf Einarsen Hoel & Vartia 2003) the organizational and social factors that permit or encourage bullying (Andersson & Pearson 1999; Fox & Stallworth 2004; Vartia 1996; Zapf 1999) bullying's adverse effects on the victims (Zapf Knorz & Kulla 1996) ways to counter bullying (Richards & Daley 2003) and the attributes of bullies and their victims (Zapf). However a review of the literature did not uncover studies focusing on the attributes of workplace bullies in particular. The proposed study will help fill this gap in the literature by constructing a psychological profile of workplace bullies. This profile will help organizations recognize bullies mitigate their effects and prevent bullying.