ABSTRACT
A growing body of evidence suggests that the problem of workplace bullying affects a substantial number of British employees either directly as targets of bullying behaviour or, indirectly, as bystanders or witnesses of such activities (Hoel and Cooper, 2000b). In order to be able successfully to prevent or at least reduce the prevalence of the problem, we need to have a clear view of the factors that cause it. Therefore, in this chapter we intend to trace the causes of bullying.
