Background: Bullying is defined as subjecting someone to undue mental torture by virtue of being at a superior position. Unfortunately, the prevalence bullying in Pakistan quite high and gastroenterology residents are not an exception. Objective: To identify behaviors experienced post graduate clinical environment strategies used for coping with them. Material Methods: This cross-sectional stud...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the need to treat negative workplace behaviours which are not perceived as bullying as seriously as those which are. The paper also aims to examine whether or not the National Health Service (NHS) appears to experience a higher level of negative behaviour than private sector organisations and whether lower frequency behaviour has simil...

Study of the professions, and the process of professionalisation as an occupational strategy, has mainly concentrated on investigating structures of power, rather than individual and deliberate use of power. This chapter provides a microanalysis of power relations by examining professional power and hierarchy in interpersonal relations within the workplace. It makes links across the spectrum of...

OBJECTIVES To consider the experiences of final-year physiotherapy students who have experienced workplace bullying on a clinical internship. DESIGN Qualitative methodology using individual semi-structured interviews. SETTING A university in the Midlands region of the UK. PARTICIPANTS Eight undergraduate physiotherapy students who had experienced one incident of bullying on a clinical int...

This paper addresses the construct and predictive validity of two methods for classifying respondents as victims of workplace bullying. Although bullying is conceived as a complex phenomenon, the dominant method used in bullying surveys, the operational classification method, only distinguishes two groups: victims versus non-victims. Hence, the complex nature of workplace bullying may not be ac...