Workplace Bullying In Academia: A Canadian Study

By R. McKay, D. Arnold, Jae Fratzl, Roland Thomas. 2008

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Escaping bullying: The simultaneous impact of individual and unit-level bullying on turnover intentions (2012, result): “How does bullying influence turnover intentions? Consistent with past studies, the results of this study show that when people are bullied at work, they have a stronger desire to leave their organization (Hauge et al., 2010; McKay et al., 2008).”
Workplace harassment among staff in higher education: a systematic review (2017, methodology): “One study (McKay et al. 2008) found that work colleagues were well informed about the nature and definition of bullying in the workplace and identified that it often occurs in weak, toxic and poorly defined organisational structures.”
Prevalence and Forms of Workplace Bullying Among University Employees (2012, background): “To date, only a few surveys have included questions regarding the targets’ reactions to bullying (e.g., Hoel and Cooper 2000; McKay et al. 2008).”
Faculty Experiences with Bullying in Higher Education (2010, background): “McKay et al. (2008) found that 21% of their sample reported bullying that had persisted for more than five years in duration.”
Cyberbullying among University Students: Gendered Experiences, Impacts, and Perspectives (2014, background): “Currently “cyberbullying” is the term most often used when describing relevant behaviour at the university level [11–13, 16, 17, 45–60], as well as in the workplace [14, 15, 61–63], although other terms are also used.”