Lessons From Norwegian Workplace Bullying Research

Dr. Ståle Einarsen, Director, Bergen Bullying Research Group; Professor, University of Bergen discusses his voluminous body of work from the past 32 years. Without peer, Einarsen's prolific work, cited 43,571 times on Google Scholar, leads all academic researchers in both breadth and depth of knowledge on the topic. We cover the search for personality predictors of targethood, a model of destructive leadership (yes, there is worse than simply doing nothing), biological substrates of the bullying experience that mediate the harm inflicted, key organizational risk and prevention climate factors and what progressive nations like Norway do to mitigate harm to workers. Listen for the great line -- "it's the organization, stupid!"