If you're a woman with a female co-worker who's a bully, watch your back, sister.
A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute examining office behaviors — like verbal abuse, job sabotage, misuse of authority and destroying of relationships — found that female bullies aim at other women more than 70 percent of the time.
Bullies who are men, by contrast, tend to be equal-opportunity tormentors when it comes to the gender of their target.
Read more in the New York Times.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Women: Their Own Worst Enemies at Work
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