ABSTRACT
This chapter sheds light on the development of research on workplace bullying, the causes and impact of workplace bullying on schools, and offers suggestions on how to address this scourge. Whilst acknowledging that teachers are multi-targeted individuals of bullying, the chapter focuses on the mistreatment of teachers by their principals. The chapter also focuses on the ecological model provides a structure for discussing the causes and impacts of workplace bullying. Informed by Johnson's ecological model of workplace bullying, the chapter highlights the interrelationship between the antecedents of workplace bullying on the micro-system, the meso-system, the exo-system, and the macro-system. The chapter shows researchers' preoccupation with investigating the causes of and impact of workplace bullying on the micro-and exo-systems level. By using an ecological perspective light was also shed, albeit to a lesser extent, on the macro-and meso-system levels, and the need to move beyond generic solutions to the problem.
