The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace Bullying

Book excerpt: Workplace bullying is highly undesirable, destructive and costly in terms of personal and corporate experience. The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace Bullying, edited by Dr Anne-Marie Quigg, has been designed to offer ideas, inspiration, help and guidance to people who have to respond to bullying, providing advice that is pertinent in real life. It provides definitions of workplace bullying, and presents the collective wisdom and knowledge of management experts and academics from around the world. The key themes include understanding the law in each country represented and the responsibilities of individuals as well as management teams and governors in organizations. New case studies are supplied by people working with and within HR teams who have experience of dealing with the issue, and practical suggestions that are of use to managers, to people accused of bullying and also to people who find they are targets of bullying.