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Workplace harassment

Index Workplace harassment

Workplace harassment is the belittling or threatening behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers Recently, matters of workplace harassment have gained interest among practitioners and researchers as it is becoming one of the most sensitive areas of effective workplace management. [1]

71 relations: Abusive supervision, Addictive Behaviors, Aggression and Violent Behavior, Alcoholism, American Civil Liberties Union, American Counseling Association, American Psychological Association, American Psychologist, Anita Hill, Annual Review of Sociology, Annual Reviews (publisher), Australian Public Service Commission, Bullying, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Columbia Law Review, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, CRC Press, Elsevier, Emerald Group Publishing, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Federal government of the United States, Generalized anxiety disorder, Georgetown Law, Georgetown Law Journal, Government of Australia, Harassment, Harassment in the United Kingdom, Hostile work environment, Human Relations (journal), Industrial and organizational psychology, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Employment Counseling, Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Legal Information Institute, LGBT, Loyola Law School, Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Management Communication Quarterly, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, Mobbing, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ..., Occupational safety and health, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Protection from Harassment Act 1997, Psychological stress, PsycINFO, Quid pro quo, Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., SAGE Publications, Sexual harassment, Southern University, Bangladesh, Taylor & Francis, United States Department of Labor, United States Merit Systems Protection Board, Villanova University School of Law, Wiley-Blackwell, William Mitchell College of Law, Workplace, Workplace aggression, Workplace bullying, Workplace incivility, Workplace violence. Expand index (21 more) »

Abusive supervision

Abusive supervision is most commonly studied in the context of the workplace, although can arise in other areas such as in the household and at school.

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Addictive Behaviors

Addictive Behaviors is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.

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Aggression and Violent Behavior

Aggression and Violent Behavior is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of violent behavior.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.

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American Counseling Association

The American Counseling Association (ACA) is a membership organization representing licensed professional counselors (LPCs), counseling students, and other counseling professionals in the United States.

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American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States, with around 117,500 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students.

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American Psychologist

American Psychologist is the official peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Psychological Association.

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Anita Hill

Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American attorney and academic.

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Annual Review of Sociology

The Annual Review of Sociology is an annual peer-reviewed review journal published by Annual Reviews since 1975.

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Annual Reviews (publisher)

Annual Reviews, located in Palo Alto California, Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.

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Australian Public Service Commission

The Australian Public Service Commission is a statutory agency of the Australian Government that acts to ensure future capability and sustainability within the approximately people (or 0.8 per cent of the Australian workforce) that comprise the Australian Public Service.

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Bullying

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate or aggressively dominate others.

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Bureau of Justice Statistics

The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a federal government agency belonging to the U.S. Department of Justice and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor.

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Columbia Law Review

The Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School.

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Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School (often referred to as Columbia Law or CLS) is a professional graduate school of Columbia University, a member of the Ivy League.

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Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is a publishing group based in the United States that specializes in producing technical books.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information.

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Emerald Group Publishing

Emerald Publishing Limited is a scholarly publisher of academic journals and books in the fields of management, business, education, library studies, health care, and engineering.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.

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European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

The European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology was established in 1991 and is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry, that is, apprehensive expectation about events or activities.

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Georgetown Law

Georgetown University Law Center, commonly referred to as Georgetown Law School or simply Georgetown Law, is one of the professional graduate schools of Georgetown University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1870, it is the second largest law school in the United States and receives more full-time applications than any other law school in the country.

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Georgetown Law Journal

The Georgetown Law Journal is a student-edited scholarly journal published at Georgetown University Law Center.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Harassment

Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature.

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Harassment in the United Kingdom

Harassment is a topic which, in the past couple of decades, has been taken increasingly seriously in the United Kingdom, and has been the subject of a number of pieces of legislation.

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Hostile work environment

In United States labor law, a hostile work environment exists when one's behavior within a workplace creates an environment that is difficult or uncomfortable for another person to work in due to discrimination.

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Human Relations (journal)

Human Relations is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social relationships in work-related settings.

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Industrial and organizational psychology

Industrial and organizational psychology (I/O psychology), which is also known as occupational psychology, organizational psychology, and work and organizational psychology, is an applied discipline within psychology.

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International Journal of Manpower

The International Journal of Manpower is an academic journal published by the Emerald Group, (formerly MCB University Press), addressing topics in labour economics and human resource planning.

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Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma is a peer-reviewed academic journal that is published ten times per year and covers relevant topic areas and also publishes thematic issues featuring guest editors.

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Journal of Applied Psychology

The Journal of Applied Psychology is a monthly, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association.

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Journal of Employment Counseling

Journal of Employment Counseling is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Counseling Association and the National Employment Counseling Association.

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Journal of Gender Studies

The Journal of Gender Studies is a leading British peer-reviewed journal for interdisciplinary gender studies, published by Routledge.

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Journal of Management

The Journal of Management is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications for the Southern Management Association and covering research on all aspects of management as well as the related field of industrial and organizational psychology.

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Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

The Journal of Occupational Health Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by the American Psychological Association.

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Journal of Psychosomatic Research

The Journal of Psychosomatic Research is the official medical journal of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine and is affiliated with the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.

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Legal Information Institute

The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a non-profit, public service of Cornell Law School that provides no-cost access to current American and international legal research sources online at.

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LGBT

LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

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Loyola Law School

Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Catholic university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions, in Los Angeles, California.

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Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust

Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust is a UK labour law case holding that an employer will be vicariously liable for the harassment of an employee by another.

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Management Communication Quarterly

Management Communication Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of communication studies pertaining to management and organizational communication.

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Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson

Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986), is a US labor law case, where the United States Supreme Court, in a 9-0 decision, recognized sexual harassment as a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Mobbing

Mobbing, as a sociological term, means bullying of an individual by a group, in any context, such as a family, peer group, school, workplace, neighborhood, community, or online.

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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness.

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Occupational safety and health

Occupational safety and health (OSH), also commonly referred to as occupational health and safety (OHS), occupational health, or workplace health and safety (WHS), is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at work.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)Acceptable variants of this term exist; see the Terminology section in this article.

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Protection from Harassment Act 1997

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (c 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Psychological stress

In psychology, stress is a feeling of strain and pressure.

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PsycINFO

PsycINFO is a database of abstracts of literature in the field of psychology.

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Quid pro quo

Quid pro quo ("something for something" in Latin) is a phrase used in English to mean an exchange of goods or services, in which one transfer is contingent upon the other; "a favour for a favour".

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Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc., 5No.

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SAGE Publications

SAGE Publishing is an independent publishing company founded in 1965 in New York by Sara Miller McCune and now based in California.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Southern University, Bangladesh

Southern University Bangladesh (সার্দান বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) or (Southern) is a non-government university in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

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United States Merit Systems Protection Board

The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) is an independent quasi-judicial agency established in 1979 to protect federal merit systems against partisan political and other prohibited personnel practices and to ensure adequate protection for federal employees against abuses by agency management.

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Villanova University School of Law

Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law (known as Villanova University School of Law) is a law school and part of the Villanova University System.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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William Mitchell College of Law

William Mitchell College of Law was a private, independent law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, from 1956 to 2015.

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Workplace

A workplace is a location where someone works for his or her employer, a place of employment.

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Workplace aggression

Workplace aggression is a specific type of aggression which occurs in the workplace.

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Workplace bullying

Workplace bullying is a persistent pattern of mistreatment from others in the workplace that causes either physical or emotional harm.

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Workplace incivility

Workplace incivility has been defined as low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target.

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Workplace violence

Workplace violence (WPV) or occupational violence refers to violence, usually in the form of physical abuse or threat, that creates a risk to the health and safety of an employee or multiple employees.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_harassment

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