A Special Place in Hell : Intra-Gender Bullying in the Workplace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Myfan.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2025.

Summary:

"There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women," former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was famously quoted as saying. This book builds on a study conducted by the author's research firm, which found that more than half of the female workers surveyed during the COVID 19 pandemic had experienced, or were currently experiencing, relationships/ or conditions of work which constituted workplace bullying. That workplace environments were highly strained during the crisis had been anticipated, particularly those occupations which made up the 'care frontline'. What wasn't foreseen was that the perpetrators of bullying behaviours were often female colleagues. Time and again the phrase 'it's the women' was expressed in survey data and follow up interviews. Building on that survey, this book takes a deeper dive into intra-gender female bullying, with the aim of gaining deep insight into the nature of bullying at work and from there, potential responses. Workplace bullying is a growing problem across the world, yet to date, there has been little real focus, even within academia, around what is driving intra-gender female bullying. The book, which draws primarily on Australian and UK case studies, will examine the different approaches to bullying that have been used and, analyse why these have failed to address this problem. A Special Place in Hell will be of interest to students and researchers in workplace behaviour, and equality and diversity, as well as feminism and gender studies; and to thoughtful practitioners in human resources management.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

A Special Place

What Exactly Is Workplace Bullying?

Why Australia?

Figure A Comparison of Australian National Rates of Workplace Bullying with European Statistics (2010 and 2014/2015).,

Figure B Comparison of Australian (State/Territory) Rates of Workplace Bullying with European Rates (2010 and 2014/2015)

Trends In Women Bullying Women

Figure C Number of serious claims for mental health conditions by industry National Data Set 2017-2018 - 2021-2022

An Emerging Phenomenon

Gendered Impacts

Figure D Mental Stress Categories by Sex, 2016-2017 &amp

2018-2019, Safe Work Australia (2021).

Antecedents Of Workplace Bullying

Agents of the Patriarchy and Snakes in Suits

Why Do Women Bully?

Agents Of the Patriarchy?

The 'Workplace Psychopath'

Nova's Story

The Workplace Narcissist

Christy's Story

Erin's Story (Part 1)

Mobbing And Group Exclusion

Hermione's Story

Victimology?

Recent Psychological Perspectives

'DARVO'

Prior Experience of Abuse

Psychology As a Personal Tool

'Managerialism' And New Public Management

The Shift To 'Organisational' Psychology

Labour Process Theory

Neoliberalism And New Public Management

Managerialism And Workplace Bullying

New Public Management and Workplace Bullying

Jill's Story

Tori's Story

Sage's Story

The Pain of the 'Restructure'

Fiona's Story

The Price of Redress

Charli's Story

Bystanders To Workplace Bullying

Lou's Story

Whistleblowing

Camille's Story

A Shift to Risk Management

Psychosocial Safety Climate

Figure E Psychosocial Hazards that May Arise at Work (SWA, 2022:5).

Policing Workplace Culture

Change Through Education?

The Role of Workers' Compensation

'Reasonableness' Provisions

'Reasonable' Burnout?

Brenna's Story

Annette's Story.

If Not Risk Management, Then What?

Review Of the Model WHS Legislation

The Role of Emotional Intelligence

What Is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional Intelligence in Action

Anisha's Story

Lindy's Story

Ebullient Leaders

Aren't Women More Prosocial?

Leadership as Masculated

The Postmodern Workplace

What Is 'The Postmodern Workplace'?

Gabby's Story

The Impacts on Targets

Table 1: Impact data, ASPIH survey (2024)

Social Impacts from Workplace Bullying

Fighting Back

Table 2 Responses to Workplace Bullying, ASPIH survey (2024)

Financial And Career Impacts

Loss Of Faith in Procedural Justice

Caz's Story

Authentic Narrative

Ailsia's Story

Some Positive Outcomes

Intra-gender Bullying as a Feminist Issue

'Leaning In'

#Girlboss

Woman's Inhumanity to Woman

Covert Aggression

What Is Australia's Feminism?

Sharon's Story

The Queen Bee

Mean Girls

Internalised Misogyny?

Damned Whores and God's Police

Table 3: Identity and circumstances data ASPIH survey (2024)

Gender Nonconformity

(Women's) Violence Against Women

Male on Male Workplace Bullying

Lila's Story

Diversity and Divergence

Diversity And Divergence

Workplace Bullying in The Context of Ageism

Kaily's Story

The Witch: Capitalism's Construct of The Aged Feminine

The Curious Case of Neurodivergence

Miranda's Story

Neurodivergence Presenting as Workplace Bullying

Brooke's Story

Mental Health and Cognitive Difference

Tania's Story

Workplace Bullying, A Global North Issue?

International Comparisons

Australia: A Bullying Culture?

The Example of Nursing

Global South and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Nursing In the Global North

Barbara's Story

Chloe's Story

The Experience of Male Nurses

Cultural Differences in Responses to Nurse Bullying.

The 'Anti-Ethical' Nature of Late-Stage Capitalism

Workplace Bullying and Late-Stage Capitalism

Corporate Social Responsibility

The Burden of Cultural Change

The Co-Operative Workplace: A Non-Hierarchical Solution?

Erin's Story (Part 2)

Lateral Or 'Horizontal' Abuse

Seren's Story

Integrity and Ethical Capital

Ethical Leadership

Responses and Conclusions

Repercussions Of Workplace Bullying

Individual Subjectivity

How Can Workplaces Do Better?

What More Can Regulators Do?

Horizontalism and 'Conscious Unbossing'

A Human Right to Psychological Safety at Work

How Will a Gender Lens Help?

For Feminism

About the Author.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781804415580

1804415588