Re-defining workplace bullying: An interactionist approach to exploring how participants frame and define their experiences
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Re-defining workplace bullying: An interactionist approach to exploring how participants frame and define their experiencesThis paper explores experiences of bullying victims with a view to developing an understanding of how individuals develop meaning from their experiences and thus, define bullying.In using an interactionist perspective, this paper has the potential to reveal further information about individuals' experiences that may have been overlooked in using other theoretical approaches.For example, the emphasis on interaction with others and on the structures individuals use to make sense of and define bullying may provide new ways of defining bullying and new information about what individuals consider bullying to "look like".Such findings contribute to workplace practices of preventing and managing bullying by providing a further insight into individuals experiences of bullying that is currently not readily accessible within the literature.
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2530190335