Bullying in the profession of nursing has been increasing over the past years (Matt‚ 2012). Bullying has been identified in different professions‚ but it has been a focus in the profession of nursing over the past decades. It occurs because of what is known as a “power differential” and is evident in nursing in the commonly heard phrase‚ “nurses eat their young”. Bullying in the workplace is characterized as the on-going health career-endangering mistreatment of an employee‚ by one or more of their
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look around our workplace‚ I mean the hospital‚ to note that nurses are also known to be perpetuators and victims of workplace violence in the form of bullying. I consider bullying a form of terrorism that caused “damaging effect on the victim’s well-being and facility” (Yildirim‚ 2009‚ p. 504). I am alarmed with the growing incidents of bullying among nurses‚ who are supposed to live up to the care ethics of the nursing profession. In one study‚ bullying was described as a workplace terror – a psychological
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for workplace bullying? Introduction The objective of this study is to understand the direct relation between one of Hofstede’s (2003) four dimensions and the risk of reporting for workplace bullying in employees among various organisational culture. Culture effects on reporting of bullying incidents to management due to authoritative distance between employees and managers‚ and create dissatisfaction at job even after reporting (Wornham‚ 2003). Many studies in the area of workplace bullying
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Workplace Bullying: A Destroyer of Organizations Introduction Workplace Bullying is a rather new name for an old problem. WPB goes by other names including workplace aggression‚ abuse‚ harassment (Martin‚ W.‚ & LaVan‚ H. 2010)‚ mobbing‚ victimization‚ violence‚ emotional abuse in the workplace‚ and antisocial work behaviors (Matthiesen S‚ Einarsen S.‚ 2010). While there are slight differences between the problems just mentioned‚ the organizational outcome is the same. There is a hefty expense
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occur within the workplace‚ becoming a particularly vulnerable and often not addressed issue. Cyberbullying is a cruel weapon of bullying which is repeated psychological behaviour that involves the misuse of power by an individual towards a person. Focusing on cyberbullying in the workplace‚ there are countless effects it can have towards the victims future. Social networking has made it much easier for bullying to occur in the workplace. “The rise of technology in the workplace has an unfortunate
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Bullying in the Workplace Why You Should Care On February 14th 1999‚ Silvia Braun‚ a policewoman from Bavaria/Germany did not appear in her office in Munich. Some of her colleagues found the 22-year-old woman later in her car on a service area on a highway she had shot herself with her own rifle. Braun‚ an ambitious and determined woman‚ had no money problems‚ she did not suffer from any mental illness and she was not in love with someone who did not return her feelings. What was it that
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Karyn Allison McPherson Professor Mark Crilly ENC 1102 14 March 2015 Bullying in the Workplace Annotated Bibliography Samnani‚ Al-Karim and Parbudyal Singh. “20 Years of Workplace Bullying Research: A Review of the Antecedents and Consequences of Bullying in the Workplace.” Aggression and Violent Behavior. 17.6 (2012): 581-589. Print. Al-Karim Samnani and Parbudyal Singh are both Canadian professors in the study of human resource and business management‚ and have written multiple scholarly articles
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Bullying Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat‚ physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims‚ perhaps on grounds of class‚ race‚ religion‚ gender‚ sexuality‚ appearance‚ behavior‚ or ability. If bullying is done by a group‚ it is called mobbing. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a
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Michael Sheehan and‚ M. B.‚ & Rayner‚ C. (1999). Applying strategies for dealing with workplace bullying. International Journal of Manpower‚ 20(1)‚ 50-56. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/231891373?accountid=10499 Applying strategies for dealing with workplace bullying Michael Sheehan and Michelle Barker; Rayner‚ Charlotte. International Journal of Manpower20. 1/2 (1999): 50-56. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers Hide highlighting Abstract (summary) Translate
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In diagnosing the causes and evaluating the consequences of workplace ill-treatment‚ discuss the role of factors associated with individual workers relative to factors associated with the workplace context. Workplace bullying is evident across all workplaces and results in costs to both the organisation and the individual and continues to be an area of concern. Workplace bullying can be defined as ‘a repeated‚ unreasonable behaviour directed towards a worker‚ or group of workers‚ that creates
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