Bullying and Behavioral Conflict at Work: The Duality of Individual Rights represents the very best in socio-legal scholarship, combining close doctrinal analysis and a sophisticated understanding of jurisdictional complexities with a rigorous empirical study of case law and the key agents senior lawyers and senior managers who implement the legal norms regulating behavioural conflict at work. Informationen zum Autor Lizzie Barmes is Professor of Labour Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests are in the legal regulation of bullying and harassment at work, contracts of employment, positive action to promote equality and judicial diversity, as well as the empirical investigation of legal phenomena. Prior to becoming an academic, Lizzie spent four years as a government lawyer in the common law team of the Law Commission of England and Wales and six yearsin private practice as an employment, equality, and personal injury litigator. Klappentext Based on extensive empirical research examining behavioural conflict at work, this book gives a much-needed insight into the current law that regulates workplace behaviour. Arguing that current law and policy is insufficient, the author suggests reforms which seek to reconcile individual and collective perspectives on working life.Winner of the SLSA's 2017 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize Zusammenfassung Based on extensive empirical research examining behavioural conflict at work, this book gives a much-needed insight into the current law that regulates workplace behaviour. Arguing that current law and policy is insufficient, the author suggests reforms which seek to reconcile individual and collective perspectives on working life.

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Winner of the SLSA's 2017 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize

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Lizzie Barmes is Professor of Labour Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests are in the legal regulation of bullying and harassment at work, contracts of employment, positive action to promote equality and judicial diversity, as well as the empirical investigation of legal phenomena. Prior to becoming an academic, Lizzie spent four years as a government lawyer in the common law team of the Law Commission of England and Wales and six years in private practice as an employment, equality, and personal injury litigator.

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Based on extensive empirical research examining behavioural conflict at work, this book gives a much-needed insight into the current law that regulates workplace behaviour. Arguing that current law and policy is insufficient, the author suggests reforms which seek to reconcile individual and collective perspectives on working life.

Zusammenfassung
In an empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication, and conflicts about behaviour in the workplace, Lizzie Barmes analyses how labour and equality rights operate in practice in the UK. Arguing that individual employment rights have a Janus-faced quality, simultaneously challenging and sustaining existing distributions of power between management and employees, she calls for legal intervention at work to focus on resolving tensions between collective and individual concerns across the range of workplaces, and to stimulate the expression and reconciliation of different viewpoints in the implementation and enforcement of individual legal entitlements. Based on extensive primary research, the volume surveys and analyses experiences and attitudes towards negative behaviour in the workplace, and explains relevant employment and equality law as it has developed from 1995 to the present day, covering the major case law and legislative developments over this time. This book provides qualitative analysis of authoritative UK judgments about behavioural conflict at work from 1995 to 2010, as well as of interviews with senior managers and senior lawyers, allowing the reader first-hand insight into the influence of law and legal process on problems and conflict at work.