Workplace Bullying is conducting a survey at UC Davis and proposing state legislation By Steven T. Jones The people who wrote the book on workplace bullying are doing a survey on the UC Davis campus. It took me five years after leaving the job for me to recover and no one would help me seek redress for my well-documented abuse. They need only ask for help. We are willing to help as a public service.
Bullying is a health and safety issue.
The Namies' group has conducted similar surveys at dozens of workplaces across the country, and has found that between 16 and 21 percent of employees claim to suffer from regular bullying by bosses that could damage an employee's health and sense of well-being. It's driven by a perpetrator's need to control and doesn't serve any legitimate business interest. Although the concept of workplace bullying as a social ill has been around for nearly 20 years, starting in Sweden and spreading through Western Europe, it has only recently gained a foothold in the United States. The Namies founded CAWB in 1998, an extension of work they began in the '80s after Ruth Namie suffered through a hostile workplace. Their research into the issue and workplace surveys resulted in two books, including last year's The Bully at Work .