BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Bullying – Do Men and Women Bully in Different Ways?

Last week a town clerk from Chard in Somerset was awarded £58,000 in damages by an employment tribunal after she was bullied by a man who was mayor at the time. Sally Bing told the tribunal that councillor Tony Prior criticised her performance at work, overruled her on important decisions, had stand-up rows in her office and threatened to sack her.

But, of course, it's not just men who act as bullies. In August, Helen Green, a company secretary at Deutsche Bank, received over £800,000 damages for bullying she had suffered at work by four female staff as well as a male colleague.

Moreover, cinemas are currently showing The Devil Wears Prada in which Meryl Streep plays the female boss of a top New York fashion magazine who terrorises her assistants – a film that is allegedly based on a real-life fashion editor.

Do men and women bully in different ways? Who is more likely to bully – men or women? And do men and women bully for different reasons?

Ritula Shah will be joined by psychologist Elaine Douglas, Professor Charlotte Rayner of University of Portsmouth Business School and Helen Green to discuss these issues.

Andrea Adams Trust
Just Fight On
National Ban Bullying at Work Day
British Psychological Society
EOC
TUC
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