Have you been bullied at work?
On this morning's Phone-in we have been asking if you have been bullied at work? Unison says more than a third of young women have been.
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What's your experience? The most common culprit is apparently older women. Male or female, what's happened to you and what did you do about it?
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I have worked for a variety of public sector employers, including the Council, NHS and Higher Education. Without exception, the worst experiences of bullying, (by an order of magnitude) were from senior academic staff in a top flight UK University.
Some professorial staff - and mercifully, this is not endemic but confined to a smattering of notorious individuals - although extremely intelligent in an academic sense, lack the social or interpersonal skills necessary to effectively manage people. Indeed they have an extraordinary ability to destroy the confidence of anyone they line manage. Despicable bullying tactics are deployed to control and micro-manage the very individuals who were originally employed for their autonomous decision-making and ability to lead their own programmes of work. I have witnessed this and experienced it directly.
What is abundantly clear is that the University HR department are ill-equipped to deal with bullying, they appear completely ineffective and unable to intervene, preferring instead (to the detriment of myself and my peers) to turn a blind eye and collude with the more senior employee with the aim of keeping the University out of a tribunal. I suspect this HR department is not unique and I'm not sure if it is a deliberate strategy or ignorance that is the cause.
I found the following website really helpful when at my lowest ebb and really helped contextualise things:
http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm
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