Negative Acts and Bullying: Face-Threatening Acts, Social Bonds and Social Place

Charlotte Bloch

Chapter 6 in Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions, 2010, pp 126-146 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Modern working life is characterized by growing individualization and by increasing demands for flexibility These trends nourish ambiguity about where we stand in relation to others and encourage individualized jockeying for position. In the last decades increased attention has been given to the question of bullying at the workplace (Adams 1992; Keashly 1998; Rainer 1998). So-called ‘negative acts’ constitute a central concept in this research. In the literature negative acts are defined as ‘acts that are unwanted by the target that may be carried out deliberately or unconsciously but clearly cause humiliation, offence and distress’ (Einarsen 2003: 6). Such acts include common sense categories of social behaviour such as being laughed at, screamed at, ignored, threatened with sacking, maliciously teased, repeatedly criticized for one’s work, subjected to excessive surveillance, etc. Individual negative acts as such do not necessarily constitute bullying. However, in quantitative approaches bullying is defined in terms of frequency and duration of exposure to negative acts.1

Keywords: Emotional Abuse; Social Bond; Social Place; Workplace Bully; Student Exercise (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230289895_7

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