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MOBBING: Emotional Abuse in the American Workplace

Noa Davenport, Ph. D., Ruth Distler Schwartz, Gail Pursell Elliot

 

Foreward by Dr. Heinz Leymann

Mobbing can be compared to bullying at the workplace. Mobbing denotes, however, more specifically a "ganging up" by co-workers, subordinates or superiors, to force someone out of the workplace through rumor, innuendo, intimidation, discrediting, isolation, and particularly, humiliation. Mobbing is a serious form of nonsexual, nonracial harassment. It has been legally described as a status-blind harassment.

Mobbing affects the mental and physical health of victims to a great extent. It extracts staggering emotional and economic costs from victims, their families, their organizations, and society.

The authors' intent is to stimulate public awareness in the United States, to help detect mobbing in American workplaces, and to encourage preventive, timely and appropriate action. This book helps readers to understand what mobbing is, why it occurs, how it affects a victim, how organizations are impacted and what people can do - as a victim, a family member, a friend, or as a manager.

Written by three Iowa authors, Dr. Noa Davenport, Ruth Distler Schwartz, and Gail Elliot Pursell, the book deals with what has become a household word in Europe: Mobbing.

The authors are available for presentations on the material contained in the book.

 

"Read this book as a safety manual for avoiding the most terrifying kind of workplace injury. The advice given here is clear, practical, and sound. Its foundation in empirical research is firm. I recommend this book to every employee and manager in America."

-Dr. Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada, author of Eliminating Professors, A Guide to the Dismissal Process

"This is the first U.S. book on mobbing, a widespread and serious form of workplace victimization. We are in the authors' debt for bringing mobbing to the attention of the American Public and recommending ways to halt it."

-Dr. Nicole Rafter, Professor in Northeastern University's Law, Policy, and Society Program and author of numerous books on crime and punishment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eliminating Professors: A Guide to the Dismissal Process

Kenneth Westhues

A sociological study of and administrative guidebook to getting rid of unwanted professors based on 25 case studies of professorial elimination (including the author's own). Five stages in the removal of an unwanted professor are delineated and administrative strategies for navigating those stages are explained.

Book News (Portland, OR)

This account has the chill of graveyard truth. I've often read about the ideal of a fearless objectivity in the social sciences, but I've rarely experienced it as forcefully as in this book.

James R. Kelly, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Fordham University (NY)

Though thinly disguised as a guide for oppressors, it is a must read by any student of bullying and psychological terrorization. This should be required reading for new and retired faculty - the former group to serve as a warning, the latter to compel them to change the system now that they are free from defending the indefensible.

Gary Namie, Ph.D., Founder, Campaign against Workplace Bullying (USA), co-author of Bullyproof yourself at Work

Although intended as a bitter satire, Westhues gives a remarkably perceptive account of the techniques useful for getting rid of unwelcome academics. Of course, it can also be read by those who are targeted, and their supporters, as a primer on what is likely to happen and how best to oppose it. Brian Martin, Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong (Australia), author of The Whistleblower's Handbook

Eliminating Professors is first of all a scholarly treatise developed to the sociology of controlling human relations in academia and thus it contributes to our understanding of policy and practice at many Canadian Universities.

W. Robert Needham, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Waterloo (Canada), in UW Gazette (13 January 1999)

Published for the Robert Kempner Collegium, 1998, by the Edwin Mellan Press

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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