Empirical Findings on Prevalence and Risk Groups of Bullying in the Workplace

By Dieter Zapf, J. Escartín, Staale Einarsen, H. Hoel, M. Vartia. Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace, 2010

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This chapter aims at summarising some descriptive empirical fi ndings of bullying in the workplace. We will start with the frequency and the duration of bullying. This is followed by an examination of the number, gender, and status of bullies and victims; the distribution of bullying across industries and occupations; and the use of various categories of bullying. The empirical basis of this chapter is restricted to studies carried out in Europe (see Table 3.3, Appendix, for an overview of the included studies). The phenomenon of bullying, which includes being exposed to persistent insults or offensive remarks, persistent criticism, and personal or even physical abuse, has been labelled “mobbing at work” in some Scandinavian and German countries (Leymann, 1996) and “bullying at work” in many Englishspeaking countries (Liefooghe and Olafsson, 1999). Typically, a victim is CONTENTS

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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