The Bully-Proof Workplace: Essential Strategies, Tips, and Scripts for Dealing with the Office Sociopath

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BULLYING: A WORKPLACE CRISIS

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

—DESMOND TUTU

Sixty-five million workers in the United States are affected by workplace bullying each year. The numbers are staggering—and on the rise—both in the United States and globally. A study by Charlotte Rayner and her colleagues at the Manchester School of Management found that one in four people have been bullied at work.¹ Perhaps not surprisingly, women are more often the targets than men. In her book The Need to Say No, Jill Brooke reports that one-third more women than men are bullied.² Roughly one in four American workers have said that they’ve dealt with bullying at some point, according to a 2014 survey by the ...