Handbooks of workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment, vol. 1: concepts, approaches and methods

Table of contents

Unravelling the Contours of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Mapping “Varieties of Workplace Bullying”: The Scope of the Field
Premilla D’Cruz, Ernesto Noronha
The Presence of Workplace Bullying and Harassment Worldwide
Jose M. León-Pérez, Jordi Escartín, Gabriele Giorgi
Theoretical Frameworks That Have Explained Workplace Bullying: Retracing Contributions Across the Decades
Sara Branch, Linda Shallcross, Michelle Barker, Sheryl Ramsay, Jane P. Murray
Workplace Bullying and the Polemic of Subjectivity and Intent
Charlotte Rayner
Ethical Challenges in Workplace Bullying and Harassment: Creating Ethical Awareness and Sensitivity
Helen LaVan, W. M. Martin
Depersonalized Bullying: An Emergent Concern in the Contemporary Workplace
Adriana Berlingieri, Premilla D’Cruz
Cyberbullying at Work: Understanding the Influence of Technology
Samuel Farley, Iain Coyne, Premilla D’Cruz
Workplace Bullying and Harassment and Positive Organizational Scholarship
Charlotte Rayner
Workplace Bullying in the Context of Robotization: Contemplating the Future of the Field
Premilla D’Cruz, Ernesto Noronha
Investigating the Issue of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Workplace Bullying and Cyberbullying Scales: An Overview
Jordi Escartín, Ivana Vranjes, Elfi Baillien, Guy Notelaers
Construct Validity in Workplace Bullying and Harassment Research
Guy Notelaers, Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden
Workplace Bullying and Harassment as Group Dynamic Processes: A Multilevel Approach
Jose M. León-Pérez, Paula Ruiz-Zorrilla, Guy Notelaers, Elfi Baillien, Jordi Escartín, Mirko Antino
Workplace Bullying: A Social Network Perspective
Birgit Pauksztat, Denise Salin
Modelling Dysfunctional Behaviours in Organizations: The Case of Workplace Mobbing/Bullying
Ugo Merlone, Piergiorgio Argentero
Qualitative Research Methods in the Study of Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Renee L. Cowan, Allison Toth
Innovations in Qualitative Approaches for Studying Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Stacy Tye-Williams
The (Un)Questionable Challenges of Sample Access, Recruitment and Retention in Contemporary Workplace Bullying Research
Declan Fahie, Deirdre McGillicuddy
Interdisciplinary and Mixed Methods Approaches to Study Workplace Bullying, Emotional Abuse and Harassment
Ralph Fevre
Researcher Ethics, Solidarity and Accountability: The Promise of Understanding
Anna Einarsdóttir

This volume captures themes and debates around elucidating and studying workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment. The chapters presented here underscore the complexities and nuances of the phenomenon and showcase the various techniques relevant to and concerns associated with researching it. Debates abound as to what workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment is and what it is not, leading to a construct bind. Viewpoints are exchanged over how best to uncover the topic so as to ensure that recommendations for action are anchored in rigour. Section 1 portrays the gamut of variants that constitute workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment, such as interpersonal bullying, depersonalized bullying and cyberbullying, alongside theoretical underpinnings, contentious stances and contemporary contextual influences. Section 2 speaks to the challenges of studying a sensitive, multi-person, multi-level problematic, highlighting the possibilities offered by quantitative, qualitative and mixed paradigms. Advanced designs and innovative strategies that facilitate explanatory power, reliability and validity are put forward.

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