ABSTRACT
The rich and varied scholarship on workplace bullying in North America has greatly expanded over the past decade and has begun to meaningfully influence organizational policy and practices. The aim of this chapter is to chart the North American research on workplace bullying and aggression to reveal longstanding and emergent themes and identify the main contributions of this research to the broader workplace bullying field. We organize this increasingly vast and diverse literature in terms of the core workplace bullying elements of time, intent, power, source and norm violation. Emerging trends include continued construct proliferation, expansive notions of target responding, exploration of relational nature of bullying with increased attention to actors and witnesses, and articulation of the systemic and communal influences and thus, organizational culpability. We close with a discussion of potential future directions for North American bullying research with particular attention and response to persistent methodological and measurement challenges.
