What happens when there is abuse of faculty in a university environment?
Let's consider the following four situations (chronicle of Higher Education, November 2017):
Abuse is normalized-when one says that's how things are done at this university-- in reaction to someone claiming they are being abused-and the person says if you can't take it-then just leave.
Abuse destabilizes the targets-it takes a long time to realize that your department chair who appears generous and supportive is really isolating you and controlling you.
Abuse thrives in the university setting because co-workers enable it-department chairs stay in power because it maintains the status quo. Silence and inaction are then forms of enabling.
It is easier to blame the victim than change the system - means that the ostracized/isolated/untrusted person tends to blame themselves for anything that is wrong in the sysytem--when it is really the one in power that causes such incongruities.
Looking at abuse in the university environment can help one to understand why workplace bullying can thrive.
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