Workplace Bullying

Finding Your Way to Big Tent Belonging

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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A toolkit for managers wanting to create inclusive cultures by addressing toxic behaviors that stagnate innovation, fracture work communities, and drive out top employees and as a lifeline for employees suffering through workplace abuse.Workplace Bullying: Finding Your Way to Big Tent Belonging is a lifeline for people who have been targets of workplace abuse and are desperately trying to make sense of the trauma. It is a resource for partners trying to help their loved ones heal. And, it is a toolkit for managers and industry leaders inspiring to create inclusive cultures by proactively addressing toxic behaviors that stagnate innovation, fracture work communities, and drive out top employees. To simplify a complex topic and make the book readable and engaging for a wide audience, the author uses the elements of story to tell the tale of workplace bullying, zooming in on the characters, settings, and plotlines of cultures that allow and/or encourage workplace abuse.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-20
Mått148 x 217 x 21 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538172087

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Dorothy Suskind is an Assistant Professor in the Education and Counseling Department at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In her current role, she supervises pre-service teachers in the field and teaches classes in early literacy, disciplinary literacy, behavior management, secondary education, and a capstone course focusing on women as disruptive change agents in their community. Currently, Dorothy serves on the Research Team and Executive Board of the National Workplace Bullying Coalition and is the Vice President of the Virginia College Literacy Educators.

PreludeIntroductionChapter One: The Cast of CharactersChapter Two: The Setting of the BattlefieldChapter Three: The Plotlines that Drive the ConflictChapter Four: The Tools of DestructionChapter Five: This Job is Making Me SickChapter Six: Reclaiming Your Narrative: Post-Traumatic Growth After TraumaChapter Seven: Characteristics of Creative CulturesChapter Eight: Closed Circles and Big Tent Belonging: A Theory of Workplace BullyingChapter Nine: Concluding the Hero's Journey

The issue of workplace bullying and incivility is a continuing, worldwide problem. Many books and articles already written on the subject explain the devastating effects of bullying on morale, creativity, productivity, personal health, and emotional well-being. Suskind’s book covers all these topics but with the added dimension of sharing real-life stories from hundreds of targets of workplace incivility. Often, targets don’t see the pending trauma slowly developing until it’s too late. Suskind identifies the characters, as if in a tragic play, as the Dragons (bullies) and the Creatives (targets). Other characters include Shapeshifters (coworkers who allow themselves to be manipulated), Community Builders (those seeking workplace homeostasis), the Figurehead (a boss more concerned with money or power), and Leader (also known as a Unicorn, a compassionate administrator). Assigning characters to this research lets one view the issue from a unique perspective. What distinguishes this book is that it derives from Suskind's collation of real-life stories submitted to her website from targets worldwide. As an author of dozens of articles on this topic, Suskind delivers in this book an insightful, thoroughly researched study of workplace bullying. Recommended for library management and psychology collections. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty; professionals.