Bully Inc

We have all worked for, or are working at Bully, Inc. An unforgiving workplace environment where the tyranny of the few is allowed to pollute the work experience of the many.It costs. From the estimated £20 billion lost to the economy alone each year in the UK to the day in day out rat-on-a-wheel drudgery and fear.In this game-changing book, author Peter Burnett dissects the phenomenon of Workplace Bullying ― which impacts one in three of the workforce. He offers a road map out of this infectious 21st Century workplace malaise. A malaise that stretches from the smallest offices to the Houses of Parliament ― itself charged with legislating on behaviour in the workplace ― to the boardrooms of the very biggest global players.BULLY, INC. shows how as a society we are now using technology to bully and how media itself can be charged as guilty in its preoccupation with celebrities ― visible in their own workplaces.BULLY, INC. answers your fundamental questions about workplace bullying:* What is and what is not bullying at work?* Why am I the target?* Why and how do bullies get away with it?* What role do bystanders play?BULLY INC. is the definitive guide to neutralising and eliminating the bully in your workgroup.If you're working at BULLY, INC. right now this book will help you.BULLYING affects one in three of the work force. Right now you are probably sharing an office with at least one person whose work life is being terrorised and dreads the everyday work experience. The economic cost of this is put at £20 billion per annum. Why? Because an unhappy, dysfunctional workplace is an inefficient one.BULLY, INC. reveals:* The range of health ailments associated with bullying at work impacting both mental and physical health;* The strategies for coping with bullying and ultimately routes to eliminating it altogether;* The identity of a major UK employer with a global footprint as a template for how to structure work relationships and how by offering a receptive and connected working environment bullying is virtually eliminated;* How new thinking about bullying controversially frames the bully as much as a target, as the bullied;* How one generation in particular has got it right in terms of their tolerances of bullying behaviours and how they are on course to neuter the issue for society generally;* How bullying permeates showbiz in the phenomenon of 'Bullytainment' - where some celebs find themselves subject to online trolling which in extreme cases has caused some to consider taking their own lives.