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08/05/2004 Entry: "Most Workplace Bullying is Worker to Worker"

Preliminary findings from a study conducted by the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) find that most incidents of
bullying in the workplace appear to be perpetuated by employees against
one another, and nearly one-quarter of respondents reported some type
of bullying incident in the past year.

The findings suggest that efforts to make changes at the organizational
level to prevent bullying in the workplace should include steps to
improve relationships among co-workers, and should not strictly focus
on improving supervisor-employee and customer-employee relationships,
the researchers said in reporting the preliminary results.

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