September 6th, 2010
Race & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding the effect of race on the experience of workplace bullying. Hispanics report the highest rates, African-Americans second highest, Asians the lowest. Public officials should infer from this that existing anti-discrimination laws (and resulting employer policies) are inadequate to stem the tide of abuse of minorities in the American workplace.
| Bullied Now | Been Bullied | Combined | Witnessed Only | No Bullying Experience | |
| Hispanics | 12.7% | 23.5% | 40.2% | 12.3% | 51.4% |
| African-Americans | 11 | 27.6 | 38.6 | 7.9 | 51.5 |
| Whites | 7.9 | 25.7 | 33.6 | 16.8 | 49.6 |
| Asians | 3.8 | 9.7 | 13.5 | 37.6 | 48.9 |
| 2010 National Prevalence Statistics | 8.8 | 25.7 | 34.5 | 15.5 | 49.6 |
A recently published journal article by Janet Raver confirmed that those who endure ethnic harassment (which is legal and actionable) have their misery compounded when also bullied. It is an additive effect. [Once, twice or three times as harmful? Ethnic harassment, gender harassment and generalized workplace harassment. by J.L. Raver & L.H. Nishii. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2010, 95 (2), 236-254.]
WBI Research Director, Gary Namie, PhD
© 2010, Workplace Bullying Institute
Survey 2. Zogby International was commissioned by the Workplace Bullying Institute to conduct an online survey of 2,092 adults from 8/18/10 to 8/23/10. A sampling of Zogby International’s online panel, which is representative of the adult population of the U.S., was invited to participate. Slight weights were added to region, party, age, race, religion, gender, education to more accurately reflect the population. The margin of error is +/- 2.2 percentage points.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, african american, asian, hispanic, prevalence, race, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
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We are in 2011, but we are still facing this kind of problems in our work place. We must do something for preventing us………….
A lot of this went unreported— or reported and IGNORED or just employment at will or better you thanme COVER UP I was bullied more than once more than one place SAW BULLYING more than one place long term so I know MOST OF IT NOT REPORTED or people just move on and get another job becuase who cares anymore anyway or
forced to join in with THE MOBBYING so they can keep thier job—I get sick of hearing myself complain but I do not wish THE BULLIES to get away with what you did TO THE TARGETS trying to do Thier JOB so they can raise thier families
Stands back from the keyboard in amaeznemt! Thanks!
it would be nice to see the statistics actually go down in all ethnic groups. it is as bad as it was 4 years ago.
im doing a speech on bullying and hoping to stop it some (: