Chapter 3: The Impact of Leadership on Workplace Bullying

From the Book: The Refractive Thinker®: Vol. I: An Anthology of Higher Learning

Summary

Workplace bullying is a deleterious problem leading to physical, emotional, and psychological damages to employees. Organizations additionally incur damages such as decreases in performance, loss of employee morale, and increased monetary costs due to this problem. Ethical behaviors of leaders and the organizational cultures they create have come under increased scrutiny as both research and the revelation of organizational and governmental scandals continues to provide evidence that the consequences of bullying behaviors are significant and should not be tolerated...