Experiences of workplace bullying among academics in a health sciences faculty at a South African university

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El acoso invisibilizado sobre la población femenina universitaria andaluza. Victimización, secuelas y reacción

“…Así, según el estudio realizado por Pikara Magazine en una investigación desde enero hasta abril de 2018 se registraron 275 casos de acoso en el sistema público de enseñanza superior: 102 casos por acoso sexual y 73 por acoso laboral, del resto no se pudo conocer la categorización 4 . Incluso la literatura científica ha mostrado mayor interés en estudiar estas tipologías de acoso entre el personal laboral universitario (Björklund et al, 2021;Conco et al, 2021;Evans et al, 2 Para acceder a la información, consúltese el siguiente enlace (última consulta: el 23 de febrero de 2022): https://cutt.ly/fDzTHXQ 3 Para acceder a la información, consúltese el siguiente enlace (última consulta: el 23 de febrero de 2022):…”

Workplace Bullying and Its Implications for Gender Transformation in the South African Higher Education Sector

“…In South Africa, academic rank often translates into Whites holding senior academic positions compared to other racial groups. As such, Conco et al (2021) found that Coloured, Indian and Asian academics experienced more bullying than Whites. And so did women, compared to men.…”

“…Workplace bullying studies in South African HEIs found that targets experienced unfair discrimination, bullying from students and administrative employees, unfair promotion, sexual harassment, and racism leading to burnout and depression (Barkhuizen & Schutte, 2016), inconsistent work allocation based on race or gender, and favouritism, withholding information, spreading rumours, undermining, humiliation, inappropriate jokes, belittling and intimidation (Mokgolo, 2017). A recent study by Conco et al (2021) found race, gender and academic rank to be antecedents of bullying. In South Africa, academic rank often translates into Whites holding senior academic positions compared to other racial groups.…”

Invisible, unmanageable, and inevitable: Online abuse as inequality in the academic workplace.

“…Workplace bullying and harassment have been identified as persistent problems in academia across geographical and national contexts (Conco et al, 2021; Meriläinen et al, 2019; Striebing, 2023) that reproduce inequalities within the academic workplace (Täuber et al, 2022). Online abuse extends and exacerbates these problems, given that it is often perpetrated by online strangers and members of the public who are not affiliated with the institutional community and therefore are not subject to its codes of conduct and antiharassment policies.…”