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Combating the Storm

PREVENTION AND RECOVERY

 

Provides useful advice and guidance for the target of abuse at work.

 

Adams, Andrea with Neil Crawford 1992 Bullying at Work: How to Confront and Overcome It. London: Virago Press Limited.

 

Examines the important structures in an academic setting for preventing cases of mobbing.

 

Cohn-Sherbok, Dan 2004. "Lessons from the British System for Preventing Cases Like Richardson's." Workplace Mobbing in Academe: Reports from Twenty Universities. Pp.347-353. Ed. Kenneth Westhues. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

 

An interesting comparison of European and American anti-harassment legislation.

 

Coleman, Brady 2006. "Shame, Rage, and Freedom of Speech: Should the United States Adopt European Mobbing Laws?" Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law. 35:1, pp.53-99

Focuses on the prevention and development of toxic work environments.

Denenberg, Richard V. and Mark Braverman 2001. The Violence-Prone Workplace: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior. Ithaca, NY:ILR Press, Cornell University.

A discussion of the mobbing-awareness movement at Southern Illinois University.

Friedenberg, Joan E. "Paying It Forward: Raising Campus Awareness about the Problem of Workplace Mobbing." Published on Kenneth Westhues' website Workplace Mobbing in Academe.

 

Provides eleven powerful suggestions for surviving a mobbing.

 

Hammerly, Hector 2006. "Mob, v t, to Kill by Pack: Practical Techniques for Surviving and Fighting Back." Six parts of essay published online November 2006 on Hector Hammerly Memorial Website.

 

A personal account of the experience, the survival, and the recovery of a mobbing target.

 

Kufeldt, Kathleen 2004. "Eliminated but not Annihilated." Workplace Mobbing in Academe: Reports from Twenty Universities. Pp.331-343. Kenneth Westhues (Ed). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press

 

Outlines five important ways attacks on mobbing targets can be turned around.

 

Martin, Brian 2004. "The Richardson Dismissal as an Academic Boomerang." Workplace Mobbing in Academe: Reports from Twenty Universities. Pp.317-330. Ed. Kenneth Westhues. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

 

Provides an overview of workplace mobbing and its implications. Concludes with key recommendations.

 

Shallcross, Linda 2003. "The Workplace Mobbing Sydrome: Response and Prevention in the Public Sector." Paper presented at Workplace Bullying: A Community Response Conference, Brisbane 17 October 2003. Available online through mobbing.ca website.

 

Identifies the costs to an organization that fails to address the problem of workplace mobbing

 

Sheehan, Michael 2004. "Workplace Mobbing: a Proactive Response." Paper presented at the Workplace Mobbing Conference in Brisbane Autralia, 14-15 October 2004.

 

Presents nine powerful accounts of trouble in the workplace and explores how individuals survived and moved on.

Westhues, Kenneth Ed. 2005. Winning, Losing, Moving On: How Professionals Deal with Workplace Harassment and Mobbing. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Compares and contrasts two case studies of academic mobbing. Concludes with the Waterloo Strategy for Prevention of Mobbing in Universities.

Westhues, Kenneth 2006. The Remedy and Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.

Developed by Professor Kenneth Westhues this strategy outlines ten recommendations for administrative measures to prevent academic mobbing.

Westhues, Kenneth 2006. "The Waterloo Strategy for Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education." The Remedy and Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education. Pp. 235-248. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Also available online: <http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~kwesthue/waterloostrategy.htm>

 

Examines the nature and consequences of abuse in the workplace.

 

 

Wyatt, Judith and Chauncey Hare 1997. Work Abuse: How to Recognize and Survive It. Rochester, Vermont: Schenkman Books

 

An important discussion of the legal issues at play in combating workplace mobbing.

 

Yamada, David 2004. "The Role of Law in Combating Workplace Mobbing and Bullying." Workplace Mobbing in Academe: Reports from Twenty Universities. Pp. 388-403. Ed. Kenneth Westhues. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press.