Workplace Bullying: A Quantitative Study of Adult Victims

Workplace bullying has gained widespread attention as contributing to the increase in organizational costs and the reduction in employee productivity. Organizations and human resource departments have conducted studies and developed prevention programs to address bullies, but few studies or programs have focused on the role of victims in the onset of bullying. This quantitative study examined the relationship between bullying victimization in the workplace, focusing on personality traits, specific problem solving, and a victim\u27s locus of control belief. A sample (N = 94) of male and female college students completed the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised, Heppner\u27s Problem-Solving Inventory, Levenson\u27s Locus of Control Scale, and the NEO-5 Factor Inventory. Data were initially analyzed using a 2-tailed MANCOVA with subsequent ANOVAs. Results showed that victims and nonvictims of workplace bullying had significantly different instrument scores. Specifically, victims scored significantly higher than nonvictims in Neuroticism, Approach/ Avoidance, Personal Control, and Powerful Others, whereas nonvictims\u27 scores were significantly higher than victims for Extroversion related to workplace bullying. This study may contribute to social change by identifying and addressing the behaviors of individuals who could become the victims of workplace bullying and how to address victimization through educational awareness and training, allowing victims to be more proactive and reducing the risk of being bullied. Future studies are recommended to examine the relationship between bullied victims who score high on problem-solving and their locus of control

How mentorship affects the transition from student to qualified midwife

Mentorship: is the fourteenth series of ‘Midwifery basics’ targeted at practising midwives. It aims to provide information to raise awareness of the impact of the work of midwives on student learning and ultimately on women’s experience and encourage midwives to seek further information through a series of activities. In this eighth article Emma Walker and Joyce Marshall consider how mentorship affects the transition from student to newly qualified midwife

MF900

Funded in cooperation with the Kansas Extension Homemakers Council.Joyce E. Jones & Doris "Katey" Walker, Consumer choice, Kansas State University, September 1992

Classroom Activity: Spatial and Activity-Based Ethnography of Classroom Design

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: This activity, designed for college-level classrooms, asks students (and teachers) to engage in careful observation of spaces where learning happens. Videos such as Stephen Heppell’s “Space, the Final Frontier” and Ewan McIntosh’s “The Seven Spaces” can introduce students to the importance of materiality and design in learning environments, while the activity itself asks students to examine learning activities in a range of different spaces and to consider how spaces, tools, people, texts, and the interactions of all of these elements affect learning. This assignment could be a major class project or unit or could be scaled down as a one or two day activity with a class discussion

Nursing opinion leadership: a preliminary model derived from philosophic theories of rational belief

Opinion leaders are informal leaders who have the ability to influence others' decisions about adopting new products, practices or ideas. In the healthcare setting, the importance of translating new research evidence into practice has led to interest in understanding how opinion leaders could be used to speed this process. Despite continued interest, gaps in understanding opinion leadership remain. Agent‐based models are computer models that have proven to be useful for representing dynamic and contextual phenomena such as opinion leadership. The purpose of this paper is to describe the work conducted in preparation for the development of an agent‐based model of nursing opinion leadership. The aim of this phase of the model development project was to clarify basic assumptions about opinions, the individual attributes of opinion leaders and characteristics of the context in which they are effective. The process used to clarify these assumptions was the construction of a preliminary nursing opinion leader model, derived from philosophical theories about belief formation.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100132/1/nup12008.pd

L809

Wilma Schuh, Doris "Katey" Walker, and Joyce E. Jones, "Adjusting to financial problems," Kansas State University, March 1990

L812

Wilma Schuh, Doris "Katey" Walker, and Joyce E. Jones, Sharpening survival skills, Kansas State University, March 1990

L810

Wilma Schuh, Doris "Katey" Walker, and Joyce E. Jones, "Coping with stress," Kansas State University, March 1990

L811REVISED

Updated by Doris "Katey" Walker, Charles L. Griffin, and Sarah Krehbiel, School of Family Studies and Human Services.Wilma Schuh, Doris "Katey" Walker, and Joyce E. Jones, "Using community and family resources," Kansas State University, March 1990