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Like wolves in a pack: Predatory alliances of bullies in nursing

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  • Hutchinson, Marie
  • Vickers, Margaret H
  • Jackson, Debra
  • Wilkes, Lesley

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The findings from the first, qualitative stage of a larger sequential mixed method study of bullying in the Australian nursing workplace are reported. Interviews with twenty-six nurses, recruited from two health care organizations, were analysed using the constant comparative method. Participants described informal organizational networks as the mechanism through which predatory, cooperative, and planned group bullying acts were promulgated. These predatory alliances enabled the co-option of legitimate organizational systems, the concealment of bullying, and the protection and promotion of perpetrators. By identifying the manner in which workplace bullying can be embedded within informal organizational networks, this research has important implications for further research in this field.

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  • Hutchinson, Marie & Vickers, Margaret H & Jackson, Debra & Wilkes, Lesley, 2006. "Like wolves in a pack: Predatory alliances of bullies in nursing," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(3), pages 235-250, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:12:y:2006:i:03:p:235-250_00
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    1. Elif Özlem Özçatal & Umur Aşkın, 2022. "Disabled Employees as A Vulnerable Group in the Labor Market and Mobbing: A Qualitative Research in Tokat Province," Journal of Social Policy Conferences, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 0(83), pages 39-100, December.
    2. Wheeler, Anthony R. & Halbesleben, Jonathon R.B. & Shanine, Kristen, 2010. "Eating their cake and everyone else's cake, too: Resources as the main ingredient to workplace bullying," Business Horizons, Elsevier, vol. 53(6), pages 553-560, November.

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