Over the past decade, a growing number of Anglo-American and
Scandinavian researchers have documented the extent to which the
university environment provides opportunities for workplace bullying. By
contrast, there has been a visible lack of similar studies in
non-Western national contexts, such as the Czech Republic and other
Central Eastern European (CEE) countries.
The present article addresses
this gap by reporting the findings of the first large-scale study into
workplace bullying among university employees in the Czech Republic. The
exposure to bullying was assessed with the Negative Acts
Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R) in a sample of 1,533 university employees.
The results showed that 13.6 % of the respondents were classified as
bullying targets based on an operational definition of bullying (weekly
exposure to one negative act), while 7.9 % of the respondents were
identified as targets based on self-reports. This prevalence is
comparable to bullying rates in Scandinavia but considerably lower than
in Anglo-American universities.
Differences between Anglo-American and
Czech universities were also found with respect to the status of
perpetrators (bullying was perpetrated mostly by individual supervisors
in the Czech sample), perceived causes of bullying (structural causes
perceived as relatively unimportant in the Czech sample), and targets’
responses to bullying (minimal use of formal responses in the Czech
sample). The authors propose that cross-cultural differences as well as
differences between the Anglo-American model of “neoliberal university”
and the Czech model of university governance based on “academic
oligarchy” can be used to explain these different findings.
From: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10672-012-9210-x
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