As if life isn’t unfair enough for the alarming number of people who are bullied at work—or otherwise adversely affected by such behavior—recent research suggests that a lot of workplace bullies achieve high levels of career success. In fact, their bullying and on-the-job achievements might just be related.
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Workplace Bullying: The Problem — and Its Costs — Are Worse Than We Thought
For all the recent concern over teen bullying, large numbers of adults also deal with peer-to-peer intimidation, especially at work: Approximately one in four U.S. workers say they’ve been bullied on the job, according to the …
Do women bully women at work?
Buried in a Science section column about workplace bullies by Tara Parker-Pope of The New York Times yesterday:
A large share of the problem involves women victimizing women. The Zogby survey showed that 40 percent of workplace bullies are women.
That survey on workplace bullying by Zogby International had found that half of working …
