Workplace Bullying in the University Context: a necessary discussion

Abstract

This article aims to present some results of a research project, which made possible to identify the workplace bullying occurrence and characteristics in a university. The research was classified as descriptive, case study, with quantitative and qualitative approach. Questionnaires were sent to the university servants, and interviews were conducted. It was found that universities aren’t immune to the occurrence this kind of violence, and that cause health disorders, especially mental, which those workers, by the fact that implicated in the deterioration of working conditions, isolation and communication refusal,  as well as verbal, physical or sexual violence. It’s concluded that the university must create and develop measures to prevent and combat workplace bullying, since current actions have been ineffective.