We are looking for 4 more research participants for a USC study of Women Leaders’ Experiences of Workplace Bullying in US publicly traded companies.
If you fit the description above and are willing to share your experience, please go to http://bit.ly/USCbully
Your participation will remain confidential and interview responses will be de-identified before use by the researcher.
Where will you publish findings and potential ways to address the bullying? It is difficult to fix as companies would most likely defend the bully. Think of a scenario where the whole organization is ruled by the bully. The bully made it to C suite, and hired friends for key roles. Those friends (who weren’t the most qualified for the roles) then target any talent that they deem competition. They control the narrative and while people know this is happening no one stands up for fear of retaliation.
The scenario you’re describing over time often turns into systemic bullying or depersonalized bullying (eg “how we do things here”) without intervention from a board or very public court case. It often becomes a toxic workplace.
In terms of publication, the dissertation may be published, however academic writing is dry as hell. What I will likely do is take my anonymized and de-identified findings, update them to more common language and share in targeted ways that support the women who participated. I’m also toying with a few ideas of how to support women who have been bullied, but those ideas are in nascent stages. I’ll know more once data collection and analysis are complete.
Is this paid
No. This is unfunded research conducted in partial fulfillment of a doctoral degree.