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Critical review of a report titled “The incidence of workplace bullying”

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Critical review of a report titled "The incidence of workplace bullying" conducted by Charlotte Rayner (1997). Source: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, (1997, vol.7, pp.199-208. Charlotte Rayner conducted a quantitative study in 1994 into workplace bullying in the UK. Her rationale for this study was founded on the lack of research into adult bullying as a phenomenon. Child-child bullying has received considerable attention, e.g. Besag (1989), Batch & Knoff (1994), and a yet there is a dearth of research, especially in the UK, into adult-adult bullying. Child-child bullying is recognized as a real and regular phenomenon in developed countries (Munthe 1989) yet adult bullying has predominantly only been researched in Scandinavia (e.g. Leymann 1992, Einarssen 1991). The BBC, via various programmes, had raised awareness of adult bullying and Adams 1992, Bassman 1992 had reported on workplace bullying. Therefore Charlotte Rayner conducted this study to provide quantitative evidence for or...

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