Do policies on bullying make a difference? Contrasting strategy regimes within higher education in Australia and Croatia

Dragana Krestelica and Llandis Barratt-Pugh

International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 2009, vol. 10, issue 5/6, 303-320

Abstract: It is well established that bullying within organisations has a significant negative effect on individuals, social relations and business performance. In this paper, we present the findings from a study that investigated and explored the relations between policy, organisational awareness and resulting social behaviours within higher education. It appears that bullying behaviour may require a far greater emphasis on permeating the culture than is achieved by the mere production of informative policy texts. The paper suggests that organisations are challenged in bridging the divide between the words on the page of policy and the actions of actors within the workplace.

Keywords: bullying policies; prevention; amelioration; universities; higher education; cross-cultural; cultural differences; Croatia; Australia; international; anti-bullying strategies; management decisions; organisational awareness; social behaviour. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=26680 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijmdma:v:10:y:2009:i:5/6:p:303-320

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Management and Decision Making from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().