Understanding and Preventing Faculty-on-Faculty Bullying

Understanding and Preventing Faculty-on-Faculty Bullying provides a comprehensive understanding of workplace harassment, aggression, violence, bullying, and incivility in academia. Using a psychological, sociological, and organizational approach, this book explores the issue from the perspective of the individual, the department, and from the higher education organization. Providing research on the effects on victims and collegial culture, this important volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to present research-based suggestions for recovering from workplace bullying, recommendations for improving toxic academic environments, and practical advice about policy development to improve academic organizational culture and climate.

Autorentext

Darla J. Twale was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and previously a Professor and Coordinator of Higher Education at the University of Dayton and Auburn University, USA.

Zusammenfassung
Understanding and Preventing Faculty-on-Faculty Bullying provides a comprehensive understanding of workplace harassment, aggression, violence, bullying, and incivility in academia. Using a psychological, sociological, and organizational approach, this book explores the issue from the perspective of the individual, the department, and from the higher education organization. Providing research on the effects on victims and collegial culture, this important volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship to present research-based suggestions for recovering from workplace bullying, recommendations for improving toxic academic environments, and practical advice about policy development to improve academic organizational culture and climate.

Inhalt

Contents * List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Preface

• Part I Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction to Workplace Bullying

Chapter 2 Bullying in Academe

Part II Effects

Chapter 3 Physical, Psychological, and Psychosocial Effects

Chapter 4 Social Construction of Bullying

Chapter 5 Institutional Characteristics and Circumstances

Part III Recovery, Resolution, and Restoration

Chapter 6 Physical and Psychological Recovery

Chapter 7 Sense-making and Social Resolution

Chapter 8 Institutional Restoration

Part IV Resources and Research

Chapter 9 Practical Remedies

Chapter 10 Suggestions for Future Research

Chapter 11 Resources and Measurements * Epilog Safer Spaces *