New development: Bullying in a reforming context—a holistic, layered model of the interpersonal interaction

Abstract

Public services have been transformed, with health services, in particular, in a state of almost constant change with reforms leading to a blurring of the nature of work across sectors and a bullying rate at epidemic levels. A new holistic model of the drivers of bullying is presented. The model is a powerful tool for understanding and addressing workplace bullying.

Keywords:

• Bullying
• demographics
• health services
• occupation
• work design

Orcid

John Rodwell http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1682-0719

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Notes on contributors

John Rodwell

John Rodwell is Professor of HRM and Organization Studies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.