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The bullying of academics follows a pattern of horrendous, Orwellian elimination rituals, often hidden from the public. Despite the anti-bullying policies (often token), bullying is rife across campuses, and the victims (targets) often pay a heavy price. "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." Leonardo da Vinci - "All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men [or good women] do nothing." Winston Churchill.
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• Workplace Mobbing in Academe - By Professor of Sociology Kenneth Westhues.
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• Denis Rancourt - This is what targeting a dissident tenured professor looks like.
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• Bad Apple Bullies - If you work as a teacher in Queensland, a Bad Apple Bully principal can destroy your health and your career with malicious gossip and secret sticky-notes.
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• Bully Online - Those who can, do. Those who can't, bully. Bully OnLine is the world's leading web site on workplace bullying and related issues which validates the experience of workplace bullying and provides confirmation, reassurance and re-empowerment.
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• Stop Bullying at the University of Newcastle, Australia
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• Suppression of dissent - The general field of "suppression of dissent" includes whistleblowing, free speech, systems of social control and related topics. The purpose of the site is to foster examination of these issues and action against suppression. It is founded on the assumption that openness and dialogue should be fostered to challenge unaccountable power.
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• CAFAS The Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards - It is a group dedicated to maintaining standards of integrity and practice in academia, to exposing breaches in those standards and to supporting the victims of those breaches.
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• The Workplace Bullying Institute is the sole United States organization dedicated to the eradication of workplace bullying through public education, help for individuals, employer solutions and legislative advocacy.
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• Bully in sight - How to predict, resist, challenge and combat workplace bullying.
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• Welcome to the Website of Sir Peter Scott Vice-Chancellor of Kingston University. Providing Leadership for Higher Education in the 21st Century.
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• Minding the Workplace - The New Workplace Institute Blog, hosted by David Yamada.
In the midst of experimenting with the following laws I have found that their hypotheses are true at Wolverhampton.
In particular:
• Skorupski's Law: The more vain one's ambition, the more redundant one's grasp of morality.
• Farlie's Law: If in one's professional career one reaches a position way above what is merited, then one can only maintain this position or progress further by surrounding oneself with incompetent people.
Farlie's extensions:
1. If the people surrounding you are not incompetent, filter their every communication so that they appear incompetent and that you've rescued them.
2. If you are/have been the servant of one, then it is reasonable to assume that you will be the one in the future.
Further research and experimentations:
Please, add other locations and subjects observed so that if a significant number of cases are detected they can become published in a relevant conference. ;-)
There are of course 'The Peter Principle', stated as "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", and
The 'Max Rangers Principle' (a new one), states that when called to account, make up anything spontaneously to fit the needs at that moment.
And an extension to the 'Max Rangers Principle': to be a convincing and practised liar, feign victimhood when held accountable, usually by bursting into tears or claiming you're the one being bullied and harassed.