ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how autoethnographies have, and can be used to understand and offer interventions for the forms of aggressive behaviors in organizations. Autoethnographies are powerful approaches as they provide unique perspectives, while also strengthening scholarship by presenting the voice of the voiceless victims of workplace aggression. Generally, targets and victims of workplace aggression, bullying or mobbing have reported being targets of emotional, psychological, or physical injurious actions by another organizational member (i.e., a perpetrator) with whom the target has an ongoing work-related relationship. Workplace bullying and mobbing have been conceptualized as types of psychological violence, both in their nature and impact. Mobbing is related to workplace bullying. However, it is important to caution about the lack of definitional clarity pertaining to what exactly ‘workplace bullying and/or mobbing’ are, and understanding their relationships, how they manifest, their antecedents, predictors, correlates, moderators, and mediators.
