Westhues, K.
(2005).
Winning, losing, moving on : how professionals deal with workplace harassment and mobbing.
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Ursula A. Falk, Gerhard Falk, Ed.).
"In our western culture people are judged by their achievements, their earning power, status directly related to employment, and ability to climb the ladder of success. That is the reason it is especially tragic and emotionally damaging when one is robbed of his achievements without just and rational cause. The individual thus affected tends to lose his spirit, ambition, will to fight—ultimately his identity." (p. 174, Falk and Falk)
Westhues, K.
(2004).
Workplace mobbing in academe : reports from twenty universities.
"Mobbing is like a tornado boiling up during stormy, unsettled, inclement times at work. Such times occur in all workplaces, academic ones not least, and everybody knows the signs: disputed decisions, angry words, bruised egos, and tension in the air. Usually such periods of conflict blow over like a summer storm and things settle down again, leaving minor damage to productivity and human relations, damage repaired in subsequent weeks and months.
People who have lived through a tornado, however, know what meteorologists have determined scientifically, that this is not just a 'bad storm', but a distinct kind of near-total devastation categorically apart. That is what workplace mobbing is: a destructive social process arising out of unsettled relations at work, similar to the storms of everyday conflict but of such force, fury, terror and ruination as to warrant its own name, separate study, and specific safeguards." (p. 2)