another brilliant insight into workplace manifestations of bullying and collusion among staff with bully bosses. Stockholm syndrome, strategic denial, battered worker syndrome….related cocnepts that need mapping and a more cohesive approach?
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In 2012 I proposed a type of work abuse that fits somewhere between workplace bullying and workplace mobbing. I called it “puppet master” bullying and described it as a form of “multiple-aggressor abuse at work that may stand at the fault lines between common conceptions of bullying and mobbing.” Here’s more:
In these situations, a chief aggressor’s power and influence over a group of subordinates may be sufficient to enlist their participation in mistreating a target, creating what looks and feels like a mob. For example, if the aggressor is a mid-level manager, he may recruit HR to help out with the dirty work and encourage the target’s peers to shun or bully her.
Even in cases of peer bullying, one aggressor can use intimidation and persuasion to turn others against a peer-level target.
One of the key indicators of puppet master bullying, all too infrequently realized, is…
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Digital learning PD Dr Ann Lawless 