True Understanding Of Workplace Incivility, Widespread Dilemma In Universities

Abstract

Academia is the “Petri dish” for bullying. This is a widespread dilemma in universities with high cost to both employee victim and institution itself. This paper aimed to describe true understanding of phenomenon and factors that instigate bullying. Furthermore, this paper help to understand the relationship of various victim and perpetrator’s characteristics [1]in the occurrence of bullying at work and severe consequences of workplace bullying. This has become a problem that is too expensive to ignore. If one is not aware of dilemma, one cannot prevent. So, the purpose of present article was to describe the nature of workplace bullying and to clarify the difference of workplace bullying phenomenon with other general workplace stressors. Furthermore, useful coping strategies were also discussed to control workplace bullying problem.