Reviews for Bullying in Adulthood: Assessing the Bullies and Their Victims

The average rating for Bullying in Adulthood: Assessing the Bullies and Their Victims based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-07-10 00:00:00 Jeffry Kang Excerpt from pg. 46. "Neuman and Baron (1998) make use of the time-honoured concept of the Type A individual. This type was first defined by Friedman and Rosenman in 1969 as individuals: who are engaged in a relatively chronic struggle to obtain an unlimited number of poorly defined things from their environment in the shortest period of time, and if necessary, against the opposing efforts of other things or persons in the same environment (cited by Jenkins, Zyzanski and Rosenman, 1979, p. 3) Those individuals who exhibit the opposite type of behaviour, who are relaxed, mellow, unhurried and content, are designated Type B. Type A individuals were described by Jenkins (1975) as having a behavioural syndrome or lifestyle that is characterised by extremes of competitiveness, striving for achievement, aggressiveness, haste, impatience, restlessness, explosiveness of speech, and feelings of being under pressure of time and workload (cited in Jenkins, Zyzanski and Rosenman, 1979). Elsewhere (e.g. Miller, Lack and Asroff, 1985) it has been indicated that Type A individuals want to control group situations and demonstrate higher levels of aggression than Type B individuals. Neuman and Baron (1997) identify the significant relationship between the Type A behaviour pattern and their closely specified forms of workplace aggression, expressions of hostility, obstructionism, and overt aggression. Thus they are more likely to direct their aggression against people whom they perceive to be satisfactory targets (e.g. Randall, 1997). Consideration of the Type A behaviour pattern leads on to the issue of self- monitoring and its effects on the probability of aggressive behaviour. People with Type A patterns tend not to be very good at self-monitoring and find it hard to readily adjust their actions to changing circumstances. Snyder and Gangestad (1986) used a re-analysis of the results of the Self-Monitoring Scale to show that self-monitoring is a meaningful and interpretable causal variable having significant influences on social behaviour. Thus, people who are classified as high in self-monitoring behaviour are especially sensitive and modify their words and behaviours in order to create a favourable impression with others. Those who do not do this tend to be more conflictual and provocative in their behaviour, such that Neuman and Baron (1997) found a significant relationship between low self-monitoring and obstructionism."

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-06 00:00:00 Daniel Gubman Seth Godin's review: A peek inside Tom's brain, October 7, 2003 Tom Peters is the father of everything we know about work. And this book is the ultimate expression of his selfless quest to get us to WAKE UP, to innovate, to see what's unseen and do what needs to be done. The book is noisy, busy, brilliant, loud, insightful... a visual and verbal riot that can't be read on just one shuttle flight. Sort of a cross between a coffee table book and a Freudian analysis session... Hey--if traditional business books haven't been powerful enough, remarkable enough or in-our-face enough to have the right impact, this is the next tool of choice. I love Tom. You will too. Seth Godin