The Envy of Excellence: Administrative Mobbing of High-Achieving Professors
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The Envy of Excellence: Administrative Mobbing of High-Achieving Professors |
| Publication Type |
Book |
| Pub Year |
2006 |
| Authors |
Westhues, K. |
| Publisher |
Edwin Mellen Press |
| Keywords |
mobbing, psychic vampirism
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| Notes |
mobbing"The inching-out process is at once structural (affecting the target's social location in the workplace) and psychological (changing the targets conception of self). Structurally, the shift involves the target's increasing absense from social gatherings, and more important, a reduction in the number and importance of positions held in the workplace." (p. 177)
"Far from being merely cognitive, the inching out process encompasses the whole of the target's being. It is a sense of growing ontological apartness from the workplace. When the target is physically near the eliminators, he or she commonly experiences sweating, dizziness, trembling, shortness of breath, dryness of mouth, or heart palpitations--symptoms of stress that usually disappear once away from the workplace." (p. 194)
psychic vampirism"Tim Field (1996) writes about the serial bully, who goes after one target, then another and another, like a vampire whose sustenance requires sucking blood from successive victims." (p. 46)
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