Revised edition of Bullying and harassment in the workplace, ©2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Edited by leading experts in the field and presenting contributions from subject experts, it provides state-of the art reviews of the main themes in the field, as well as practical remedies and solutions at individual, organisational and societal levels, providing a much-needed update and expansion of the original work, as the research and literature on this problem with its manifold detrimental effects has expanded radically over the last decade. This book should be of interest to for all scholars in the field of organizational behaviour and social processes at work. In particular, the book is a much-needed tool for bachelor, master and PhD students, new and experienced researchers in the field, advanced practitioners and policy makers, including labour inspectors, union representatives, HR-personnel, lawyers, consultants and counsellors in private practice, family physicians and occupational health practitioners, to name a few"--Provided by publisher

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St̄le Valvatne Einarsen is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology at Bergen University (Norway), where he acts as head of the Bergen Bullying Research Group. Einarsen is the most cited researcher in the field of workplace bullying internationally and has published intensively on this and related issues since the early 1990ies. He was among the founding members of the International Association on Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH) which was established in 2008 and served two terms on the board of the association Helge Hoel is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manchester and a recognised international expert on bullying and harassment in the workplace, and has carried out several influential studies related to these issues. He has written and contributed to a number of books, articles and reports in the area of bullying, violence and harassment, including commissioned works for the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the European Parliament. He is a former Director of the University of Manchester Fairness at Work Research Centre (FairWRC), now integrated into the Work and Equalities Institute (WEI). Dieter Zapf is a Professor for Work and Organizational Psychology and Scientific Director at the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, and Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK. He has long standing experience in organizational stress research with a focus on stress-related job analysis, emotion work and workplace bullying. Zapf organized the first symposium on workplace bullying at an important international congress (EAWOP, Gyor 1996). He also served as an associate editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. Sir Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Before moving to Manchester he was Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University. Cooper was also head of the Manchester School of Management (within UMIST) from the early 80s. In 1995 he became Pro-Vice-Chancellor and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UMIST until 2002. From 1979 to 1980 he was chairman of the Management Education and Development Division of the Academy of Management and was the Founding President of the British Academy of Management. He has also been Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, president of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

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The nature of the problem -- The concept of bullying and harassment at work : the European tradition / Ståle Einarsen, Helge Hoel, Dieter Zapf, and Cary L. Cooper -- North American perspectives on hostile behaviors and bullying at work / Loraleigh Keashly and Karen Jagatic -- Empirical evidence -- Empirical findings on prevalence and risk groups of bullying in the workplace / Dieter Zapf, Jordi Escartín, Ståle Einarsen, Helge Hoel, and Maarit Vartia -- Individual consequences of workplace bullying/mobbing / Annie Hogh, Eva Gemzøe Mikkelsen, and Åse Marie Hansen -- Organisational effects of workplace bullying / Helge Hoel, Michael J. Sheehan, Cary L. Cooper, and Ståle Einarsen -- Measuring exposure to workplace bullying / Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Guy Notelaers, and Ståle Einarsen -- Explaining the problem -- Individual antecedents of bullying : victims and perpetrators / Dieter Zapf and Ståle Einarsen -- Social antecedents of bullying : a social interactionist perspective / Joel H. Neuman and Robert A. Baron -- Organisational causes of workplace bullying / Denise Salin and Helge Hoel -- Sexual harassment research in the United States / Kimberly T. Schneider, John B. Pryor, and Louise F. Fitzgerald -- Discrimination and bullying / Duncan Lewis, Sabir Giga, and Helge Hoel -- An industrial relations perspective of workplace bullying / David Beale -- Workplace bullying as the dark side of whistleblowing / Stig Berge Matthiesen, Brita Bjørkelo, and Ronald J. Burke -- Managing the problem -- Managing workplace bullying : the role of policies / Charlotte Rayner and Duncan Lewis -- Investigating complaints of bullying and harassment / Helge Hoel and Ståle Einarsen -- Interventions for the prevention and management of bullying at work / Maarit Vartia and Stavroula Leka -- Workplace bullying : the role for counselling / Noreen Tehrani -- Inpatient treatment of bullying victims / Josef Schwickerath and Dieter Zapf -- Confl ICT, confl ICT resolution, and bullying / Loraleigh Keashly and Branda L. Nowell -- Challenging workplace bullying in the United States : an activist and public communication approach / Gary Namie, Ruth Namie, and Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik -- Workplace bullying and the law : emerging global responses / David C. Yamada.