Trouble at Work

by Ralph Fevre, Duncan Lewis, Amanda Robinson, Trevor Jones

Overview

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Trouble in the workplace - whether it is bullying, harassment or stress - is always in the headlines. Yet, in many discussions, the research and statistics that are cited prove unreliable. This book summarizes the largest specialist research programme on ill-treatment in the workplace so far undertaken. It provides a powerful antidote to half-truths and misinformation and offers a new way of conceptualizing trouble at work, moving the discussion away from individualized explanations - and talk of 'bullies' and 'victims' - towards the workplace characteristics that cause trouble at work. The biggest problems arise where organisations fail to create a workplace culture in which individuals really matter. Paradoxically, these are often the organizations which are well-versed in modern management practices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849664660
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2012
Series:	Criminal Practice Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ralph Fevre is Professor of Social Research at Cardiff University, UK. His publications include The Sociology of the Labour Markets (1992), The Demoralization of Western Culture (2000) and The New Sociology of Economic Behaviour (2003).
Duncan Lewis is Professor of Management at Plymouth University, UK. His recent publications include articles in Public Management Review and Public Administration.
Amanda Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Cardiff University, UK. She has recently published in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, and in Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal.
Trevor Jones is Deputy Director of the School of Social Sciences, and Reader in Criminology at Cardiff University, UK. He is co-author of Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective (2006) and Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice: Exploring US Influence Over British Crime Control (2006).


Ralph Fevre is Professor of Social Research at Cardiff University, UK.
Duncan Lewis is Professor of Management at the School of Management at Plymouth University. His recent publications include (with Williams, W.H.) 'Strategic Management Tools and Public Sector Management: The Challenge of Context Specificity' in the Public Management Review (2008).
Amanda Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Cardiff University. Her research interests include police and policing, violence against women, and sentencing policy and practice. Her recent publications include 'Improving the Civil-Criminal Interface for Victims of Domestic Violence' in the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (2007). She is currently Review Editor of Sociology.
Trevor Jones is Reader in Criminology at Cardiff University and Deputy Director of the School of Social Sciences. His research interests cover a range of areas including policing - especially police accountability and commercial security, comparative penal policy-making, and policy transfer in crime control. His recent publications (with T. Newburn) include Plural Policing: A Comparative Perspective (2006), and Policy Transfer and Criminal Justice: Exploring US influence over British crime control (2006).

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures

Part one
Chapter 1. A Bad Day at the Office
Part two
Chapter 2. Fairness and Rationality at Work
Chapter 3. Civility and Respect at Work
Chapter 4. Violence and Injury at Work
Part three
Chapter 5. The Briar Patch
Chapter 6. The Office
Chapter 7. Permanent White Water
Chapter 8. Keeping the Faith
Part four
Chapter 9. The Troubled Workplace
Bibliography
Footnotes
Index