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Book Review - Bully in the Ivory Tower By Doug Bender, Managing Partner, Onyx Global HR
Bully in the Ivory Tower is an interesting treatise on the manifestation of workplace bullying in U.S. higher-education administration. I also find it interesting that she built, as a foundation for the book, a body of research covering more than 175 four-year colleges and universities. This extensive work confirmed that workplace bullying occurs at alarming rates in higher education, but frankly, bullying cuts across all segments of society at an embarrassingly inhumane level.
In this book Dr. Hollis articulates the high cost of staff disengagement caused by bullying and she eventually puts forth a model for a healthy workplace specifically for higher education, which is also applicable to the general population. The model offers solutions for the leadership and organizational level, middle managers, and the bullies who are seeking healthier management strategies.
While the book is a great analysis of bullying and shares some suggestions on how to handle it in the arena of higher education, I would have loved to have seen Dr. Hollis spend some time examining the potential for her ideas in other segments of society. That said this book is worthwhile reading for anyone interested in understanding bullying and all of its ugliness.
Bullying is a vicious form of aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, (physical and psychological), and/or threatening and persistent (repeated). There is an imbalance of strength (power and dominance). It should never be allowed to exist in higher education or anywhere else in a civilized society.
While bullying is still legal, it is clearly destructive. We need to make it non-existent and Dr. Hollis does a grand job of pricking our consciousness about that. We need to find a way to ensure that this unacceptable behavior is eliminated before it becomes embed- ded as a generational curse that can’t be broken.
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