 Using the Workplace Power Control Wheel to Name Abusive, Bullying, Controlling, and Coercive Behavior by Corporate Psychopaths at WorkHannah Scott ()
Chapter Chapter 8 in Psychopathy in the Workplace, 2024, pp 153-169 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Up to 52% of employees are or have been subject to workplace bullying (WB) globally, in a wide variety of professions. The research on WB suggests that it is both costly and encompasses a wide variety of behaviors and interactions ranging from subtle and covert tactics, like withholding information and isolating a victim, to overt aggression and physical abuse. This may be one possible reason as to why researchers differ in their definition of the term “bullying,” often equalizing it with “mobbing,” “harassment,” or “aggression.” Many agree with a definition of bullying which includes a pattern of recurring adversarial verbal and nonverbal interactions directed toward a target and resulting in negative consequences on the target’s physical and mental health. Boddy (J Bus Ethics 100:367–379, 2011) offers strong, positive, and significant correlations between the ethical issues of bullying and unfair supervision in the workplace and the presence of corporate/workplace psychopaths. This chapter describes the Workplace Power-Control Wheel (WPCW), which assumes that those who target workers are motivated by the need for power and control in the workplace. Offenders, including workplace psychopaths, use both overt and covert tactics to keep targets off balance, adding to the psychological toll of being bullied at work. The WPCW described in this chapter helps targets of bullying name their experiences more effectively, which may aid in documenting and countering abusive and controlling workspace experiences. It may also be useful as a pre-emptive training tool when onboarding new members of an organization in helping prospective workers in identifying methods of both overt and covert control. Keywords: Workplace bullying; Workplace Power Control Wheel (WPCW); Workplace victimization; Power and control; Bully tactics; Tactics; Psychopathic work behavior; Target; Victim; Power Control Wheel (PCW); Overt abuse; Overt tactics; Covert abuse; Covert tactics; Intimidation tactics; Emotional abuse tactics; Isolation tactics; Using others to abuse; Minimizing abuse; Denying abuse; Blaming targets for abuse; Economic/financial abuse tactics; Coercion tactics; Threatening tactics; Physical abuse; Sexual abuse; Using employer priviledge to abuse; Harassment; Identifying tactics; Identifying patterns of bullying behavior; Naming control tactics; Strategies to identify tactics; Bullying as management style; Employee harm; Costs of bullying; Defining bullying; Bullying as potential tool of psychopath (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-55214-4_8 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-55214-4_8 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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