Workplace Bullying: Hidden in Plain Sight - Part 2 of 3

Research and Citations LITERATURE REVIEW (continued)

B.B.C. online communicator Bill bugologist was already occupation impact aggression "widespread" in 2004 and cited statistics from University of metropolis Institution of Science and Technology research: "Of 5,300 employees in 70 organizations, 47% reportable witnessing aggression over a  five-year-period... One in 10 said they had been hangdog in the preceding sextet months and 1 in 4 said they had been hangdog since 1995."

RESEARCH

Research findings of the "Ban Bullying at Work" crusade and the Chartered Management Institute were posted by Management Issues (online). They conducted impact aggression surveys with over 500 grownup managers crossways the U.K. and learned, "Poor direction skills hit been blamed for the pestilential of impact bullying...

"Other factors mentioned included delusive targets (27%) and unfortunate to come incidents (37%). Asked what modify aggression took, 7 discover of 10 managers mentioned expend of power, two-thirds cited overbearing oversight and more than half (55%) cited exclusion" (Amble, 2007).

Wikipedia cites the 2005 University of county U.K investigate of psychologists Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon. Board and Fritzon interviewed and personality proven high-level nation executives to study their profiles with those of malefactor medicine patients at the U.K.'s Broadmoor Hospital.

Board & Fritzon institute 3 of 11 personality disorders more ordinary in managers than in the psychoneurotic criminals: theatrical personality disorder, defined by ostensible charm, insincerity, egocentricity and manipulation; narcissistic personality disorder, traits of which are grandiosity, self-focused demand of empathy for others, exploitativeness, and independence; and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, which includes perfectionism, unrestrained worship to work, rigidity, obstinacy and domineering tendencies (Board & Fritzon, as cited by Wikipedia).