A Book for Every Employee and Manager in America.
This book is 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,” said Dr. Kenneth Westhues, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Written by three authors, Dr. Noa Zanolli Davenport, Ruth Distler Schwartz, and Gail Pursell Elliott, the book deals with what has become a household word in Europe: MOBBING.
Work Environment 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 grave form of nonsexual, nonracial harassment. It has been legally described as 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, to warn those who intentionally perpetrate mobbing, and to encourage preventive, timely, and appropriate action.
Many of the victims are managers and supervisors, attacked or undermined by unscrupulous subordinates or peers — often with approval by higher management. They intentionally target — and ultimately destroy — innocent individuals who are trying to do their work well and with dignity.
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, a manager.
Dr. Nicole Rafter, Professor in Northeastern University’s Law, Policy, and Society Program said, “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.”
The authors are available for presentations, workshops, or training on the material contained in the book.
