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A Qualitative Study Of Federal Policies On Workplace Bullying, Cynthia Mary Reese Jan 2018

A Qualitative Study Of Federal Policies On Workplace Bullying, Cynthia Mary Reese

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The problem that was explored in this qualitative narrative study is the prevalence of bullying in federal government offices. Bullying in the workplace has been on the rise for many years in the U.S. and globally, but research has been limited and under-researched. Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) released survey results from 2007, 2010, 2014, and 2017 confirming the existence of bullying in the workplace. Research on this phenomenon was conducted in the fields of medicine and education, but not in business. Laws and legislation have been neither developed nor enacted to address this phenomenon. Technology in the 21st century introduces …