Abstracts and Biographies:
Workplace
Workplace bullying: policy development, implementation
and barriers to reporting
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| Rose Boucaut |
| Interviews were conducted with key people within the
anti-bullying movement in South Australia to determine their views on: the current status
of workplace bullying in this State, what is being done about it, and barriers to
resolving bullying issues at the organisational level. A case study was also conducted
within an organisation that has a bullying policy in place; the purpose being to identify
and interview key personnel involved in implementing policy, to understand barriers they
faced and issues involved in developing and implementing their policy. The research was
located within the frame-work of Anthony Giddens' Structuration Theory. Turner (1991)
suggested a variety of sensitising concepts to explain Giddens' theory. The investigator
developed questions about workplace bullying for participants based on these sensitising
concepts. Participant responses then illustrated the concepts of the model with examples
of how organisations deal with workplace bullying. |
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| Rose Boucaut is a lecturer in Occupational Health and
Safety at the School of Physiotherapy at the University of South Australia. Rose is a
physiotherapist and holds a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Adelaide
(1993). Rose is currently a post-graduate student at Flinders University, South Australia,
where she is undertaking a professional doctorate in education (Ed D). Recent research
projects include organisational aspects of workplace safety culture and workplace
bullying. |
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