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Understanding Challenges Of The Healthy Workplace Bill – An Interpretive Policy Analysis, Cynthia Contreras
Understanding Challenges Of The Healthy Workplace Bill – An Interpretive Policy Analysis, Cynthia Contreras
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
The study provided an interpretive policy analysis of the Healthy Workplace Bill, which was designed to hold employers financially liable for the reported severe cases of workplace bullying suffered by their employees. In order to facilitate this interpretive policy analysis, the study used a mixed methods research design. The quantitative data were collected through a survey administered to currently employed employees and supervisors from California and Florida who were tasked with identifying which behaviors constituted workplace bullying, workplace incivilities, and personality clashes. The qualitative data came from the original Bill, California’s Abusive Work Environments Bill, and Florida’s Abusive Workplace Environment …
The Effect Of A Multigenerational Workforce On Workplace Bullying, Supaporn Walton-Robertson
The Effect Of A Multigenerational Workforce On Workplace Bullying, Supaporn Walton-Robertson
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Workplace bullying has become increasingly prevalent in the workplace, and as such has led to instances of job dissatisfaction, and in extreme cases, workplace violence. It is important to understand workplace bullying as an organization, a manager, and particularly in the role of human resources in order to best address such situations. Current studies have evaluated the effects of workplace bullying, along with possible suggested causes – however with the vast differences in the four generations now working together in the workplace – this is an area that also needs to be addressed as the problem of workplace bullying continues …
A Qualitative Media Analysis Of The Depiction Of Workplace Bullying In Hollywood Films, Maria C. Georgo
A Qualitative Media Analysis Of The Depiction Of Workplace Bullying In Hollywood Films, Maria C. Georgo
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Work is a significant part of everyday life for many, so it is not surprising that it would be included in the storylines of many Hollywood films. Movies incorporate elements from everyday life, real or imagined. There is a plethora of research making connections between film and the social world, but not regarding workplace bullying. This study takes a close and in-depth look at workplace bullying as it is depicted in scenes from a sampling of 100 Hollywood films released 1994-2016. It is interpretive in nature and guided by the theoretical underpinnings of film theory, social construction of reality theory, …
The Lived Experience Of Witnessing Bullying In The Workplace: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Angela E. Dash
The Lived Experience Of Witnessing Bullying In The Workplace: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Angela E. Dash
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
Bullying in the workplace is prevalent in the United States and its impact is harmful not only to targets, but to the organization and its members. Through exploring the experiences of employees who self- identify with having witnessed bullying in the workplace, this transcendental phenomenological study was guided by the following two-part research question: “What is the experience of witnessing bullying in the workplace and how do participants describe their organizations where workplace bullying was witnessed?” The carefully constructed wording of my research question indicates that I was not searching for causal relationships. Instead, I was open to whatever came …