Bullying at work — why it happens, what can be done Should employers be doing more?
Shouting. Yelling. Personal attacks, while freeriding on his research.
Those are some of the behaviours that Morteza Mahmoudi, a medical nano-scientist at Michigan State University, says he had to put up with from a senior colleague at a former employer, just as his career was taking off.
Appalled by his treatment, he complained to a higher-up. But rather than tackle the bullying, the higher-up instructed the alleged perpetrator’s protégé to oversee Mahmoudi and life went from bad to worse.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Alicia Clegg
