Bullying at Work

Workplace Bullying: from Wikipedia

Bully Online Tim Field's UK National Workplace Bullying web site, including: definitions; descriptions of bullies and profiles of the serial abuser; support groups; news; health effects of bullying, including PTSD; and much more!

Workplace Bullying Institute "We are the only United States organization dedicated to the eradication of workplace bullying that combines help for individuals, research, public education, training for professionals, legislative advocacy, and solutions for bold employers."

Workplace bullying in NHS community trust: staff questionnaire survey BMJ 1999; 318:228-232 (23 January)

Diagram: Equality and Dignity at Work Scott Barrella, MS, CPIM, MFCC, and Craig Chalquist, MS. Slow download but worth it.

Horizontal Violence, Bullying, & Mobbing:

"Horizontal Violence is harmful behavior, via attitudes, actions, words, and other behaviors, that is directed towards us by another colleague. Horizontal violence controls, humiliates, denigrates or injures the dignity of another. Horizontal violence indicates a lack of mutual respect and value for the worth of the individual and denies another's fundamental human rights." A position statement on Horizontal Violence.

The BBS reports on health care worker experienced workplace horizontal violence (bullying) "Almost half of care workers said they had been intimidated, mostly by their managers."

Stand Up to Bullying Impact Trade Union, Ireland

Taking the Bully by the Horns: Dorothy Wilhelm gives advice about how to avoid falling prey to harassers, an article by Nancy Arcayna