A SUMMARY REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO WORKPLACE BULLYING

This paper is intended to provide literature signposts for the new res earcher into adult bullying. A concise, but not exhaustive, overview o f literature relating to workplace bullying is undertaken. It draws on the base provided by work into school bullying and progresses to the arena of adult bullying. In both fields Scandinavian countries have co ntributed a significant proportion of the research. Research reported in the English language into adult bullying at work is rather limited, but will have emphasis in this paper. Broadly there are two direct ap proaches; that of investigating the incidence of bullying, and also th at of attempting to understand the bullying process. Both approaches a re sometimes integrated within a study. There is a wide range of work that can be related to bullying at work, and some of these areas are h ighlighted. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.