CHAPTER 6

Bullying and Single Cases of Harassment in Higher Education Organizations: Managerial Solutions to Eliminate the Problem

Jolita Vveinhardt

Lithuanian Sports University (Lithuania) and Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)

Introduction

Relevance of the research. Education is the sphere in which the occurrence of bullying is one of the most intense form of harassment (Vveinhardt 2009). Although bullying and harassment are often analyzed in the psychological aspect, it is also a management problem, the decision of which is a complex part of personnel and human resource management system. Normally, psychologists can offer victims of bullying a few options as the solution: treatment or leaving the organization, as without the intervention ...

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