Bully Blocking at Work: A self-help guide for employees and managers
By Evelyn M. Field.
No one goes to work to be humiliated, abused, ostracised, subjected to rumours, or assaulted. Yet this is the reality of a working day for more than one in six workers. Bullying causes billions of dollars in lost productivity, expensive mistakes, employee replacement costs, and health and welfare rehabilitation expenses. Most workplaces currently have few resources and systems to deal with the problem, leaving the victims to sink or swim, and the bullies to remain professionally incompetent. Few understand that bullying is not tough management or an aggressive personality trait to be suffered. Severe and unremitting bullying catapults the victim into such a damaging emotional state that it can lead to the breakdown of their very survival mechanisms.
Bully Blocking at Work reveals for the first time the true evil nature of workplace bullying, helping the reader to understand its toxic, destructive impact on all employees - whether they are targets, bullies or onlookers - and provides advice for coping and confronting bullying, from both a personal and organisational perspective.
Bully Blocking at Work is a self-help guide for readers to understand and confront bullying within their workplace. Appropriate for reference at any stage, before, during or after bullying, it provides a research-based, balanced and comprehensive approach which focuses upon respect and responsibility for all concerned and deals with both prevention and treatment. It features a range of real-life stories, humour, questionnaires, cartoons, sample retorts and useful quotations to guide the reader to a positive outcome.
Reviews for
Bully Blocking:
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Australia's leading expert in bullying behaviour has combined years of clinical experience with meticulous research, to create an indispensable compendium on workplace bullying."
- Michael Carr-Gregg, Psychologist
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Evelyn Field's masterful analysis of the ways we can help employees cope with and overcome workplace bullying and harassment is a must read for all concerned about how to right this wrong".
- Dr Philip Zimbardo, Stanford University and author of The Lucifer Effect, Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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Kudos to bully expert Evelyn Field for this helpful book. Features many "I can use that today" techniques. Read it and reap!"
- Sam Horn, author of Take the Bully by the Horns and Tongue Fu!®
218 pages.
About the author:
Evelyn Field is a practising psychologist, professional speaker, media commentator and author with extensive clinical and personal experience in dealing with the trauma of loss and abuse. She has been helping workplace bullying victims for over 30 years, as well as training and writing about both workplace and school bullying. She regularly presents at international conferences and workshops. Her previous books on school bullying, "Bully Busting" and "Bully Blocking" are both bestsellers, and now published in five languages. Evelyn lives in Melbourne, Australia.