Workplace Bullying in Academia: A Case Study

Devi Akella ()
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Devi Akella: Albany State University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Understanding Workplace Bullying, 2020, pp 137-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Higher education has become highly commercialized, a form of academic capitalism with increasing number of private universities, short-term contracts for faculty, more teaching loads, and rising importance of administration with limited academic freedom. Academic environments have become places rampant with power, domination, and bullying. This chapter provides empirical evidence on the prevalence of workplace bullying within a college, where employees are pressurized and intimidated by their supervisors to accomplish organizational goals and objectives. All employees despite suffering from stress and humiliation unanimously agreed that bullying was an effective managerial control mechanism which had the support of the top administrators of their college.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46168-3_7

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