Managers in the firing line: contributing factors to workplace bullying by staff (journal article)
by Sarah Branch, Sheryl Ramsay and Michelle Barker
from Journal of Management and Organization, Vol. 13 No. 3 September 2007
To date, most of the research into workplace bullying has focused on managers
and colleagues as the perpetrators of bullying in the workplace. By contrast, little is known about ‘upwards bullying’, where managers are the targets. We argue that in order to more fully understand workplace bullying as a whole, the phenomenon of upwards bullying requires research and attention.