 | The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work: A Complete Guide for Managers, Supervisors, and Co-Workers |
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According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), more than two million workers in the United States alone are victims of workplace violence each year, leading to millions of dollars lost in employee productivity. Many people believe that bullying occurs only among school-age children and fail to acknowledge the presence and devastating effects of bullying in the workplace. It is time that this destructive issue be addressed and resolved; however, you may be asking yourself how to accomplish such a task. The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with valuable information on the topic, as well as unique solutions to the problem. In this new book, you will learn how to identify the problem of workplace bullying, how to define the workplace bully, how to identify characteristics of a targeted employee, how to identify pathological characteristic of workplace bullies, how to bust bullying, and how to bully-proof your employees. This book also discusses the indicators of a toxic workplace, the causes of workplace bullying, reasons why workplace bullying is perpetuated and unchallenged by other employees, the connection between bullying and lethal workplace violence, and the legal aspects of bullying. Furthermore, you will learn about mob bullying, the effects of bullying on the target, and the effects of bullying on the organization. The author also covers such special topics as workplace bullying in federal, state, and local organizations; the United States armed forces; Fortune 500 companies; and medical organizations, as well as reverse bullying by employees who inappropriately assert harassment and bullying by their superiors even though they have been fairly disciplined for sub-standard job performance. This book goes one step further and provides solutions to end workplace violence, anti-bullying pledges, and examples of zero-tolerance bullying policies. If you are a manager, a supervisor, or even just an employee and you suspect bullying is occurring, you need to read this book. Whether bullying is already happening or you want to be sure it never does, The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling, and Stopping Bullies & Bullying at Work will provide you with everything you need to know to create a better working environment.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #217845 in Books
- Published on: 2008-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Great resource
By Craig
Kohut's book is unique among books about workplace bullying because it strikes a nice balance between the personal and the practical. On the one hand, it's a sympathetic self-help book for people suffering from workplace bullying, but on the other, it offers detailed procedures to change terrible situations, both informally and organizationally. It also stands out for discussing how managers and supervisors can deal with bullying both from above and with their employees. Her approach is more clinical than others by her suggestions on a range of research, which is much more useful than the more touchy-feely books on the subject which just try to make you feel better. Instead, Kohut tries to help you understand how and why bullies act the way they do. This helps you realize a) that workplace bullying is not your fault but the result of various flawed personality types in others, and b) that once you understand the bullies, you can deal with them more effectively. The case studies she includes for every type and situation are excellent ways to understand both how bullies operate and how to deal with them. But what I found most useful were her two chapters "Surviving Workplace Bullying and Considering Your Options" and "Bullying and the Law" where she lays out a number of options for both staying in a threatening workplace and taking legal action in the most extreme cases. Apart from offering incredibly useful advice that applies to many different situations, Kohut also summarizes the best of the many other books and research on workplace bullying (so, in a sense, you get many books in one). She also includes extensive appendices that list resources for further information on particular topics as well as a number of exercises and self-assessments to best determine which of her strategies will work for you. I can't recommend this book highly enough for people who not only suffer from workplace bullying but are ready to improve their situation as quickly as possible.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Not what I needed.
By C. Mcnamara
A great book describing different types of bullies and case studies to let you know you aren't alone or imagining things. I was looking for "tools for my toolbox" and didn't find them. Only 6 pages talks about how to interact with bullies and I didn't see any real examples of calm and professional one liners to end or diffuse a situation when someone is trying to get you to act unprofessional. Hopefully I will get some advice on a book that will suit my needs. If I do, I will come back and update.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
excellent resource
By Chip Sams
I discovered this book after searching for material on workplace bullying, and found it to be both an excellent introduction to the subject on its own, and a useful pointer to other literature on the subject. The book quite effectively makes the case that there is an enormous drain on our nation's economy, as well as people's physical and mental health, that is brought about by this pervasive dysfunction that is rarely named and vastly underreported. My own experience confirms that workplace bullying is just as prevalent in religious and nonprofit organizations as it is in the business and military sectors.
Kohut provides as clear of an introduction for the layperson to the taxonomy of personality disorders as I have read. I suspect that some real-life bullies are sufficiently complex that they embody characteristics of several of the personality disorders, which may serve to confuse the victim or other lay observer. It would be interesting to hear what Kohut and other experts on workplace bullying think of Dr. George Simon's Covert Aggressive Personality Disorder as described in In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People. Subsequent chapters describe the common vulnerabilities bullies seek in their targets, common individual and mob bully m.o.'s, victim survival strategies, and the current state of legal protections against workplace bullying. While these chapters provided some clues as to where to look, they only instilled a desire to learn more about effective methods of intervention in such situations as are already in progress. I hope that some other resources can be developed to help job seekers detect and avoid landing at an organization that is infested by bullies, or which lacks a commitment to quickly stopping and removing them.
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