Take the Bull by the Horns

Instrumental Social Justice in Higher Education

Eight Surveys for Workplace Bullying and Social Justice Research

Leah P. Hollis

This book offers eight validated instruments on workplace bullying to support robust mixed methods approaches for social justice research. Workplace bullying is an excellent starting point from which scholars can consider social justice research. The data shows that marginalized and disenfranchised groups (minoritized groups, women, junior faculty, and the LGBTQ+ community) are disproportionately affected. The outcomes included career interruption and severe health disparities. Though there is a demand for workplace bullying instruments, the book also lays a foundation for creating surveys to address these populations more effectively.

Human Resource Perspectives on Workplace Bullying in Higher Education

Understanding Vulnerable Employees' Experiences

Leah P. Hollis

This analytical volume uses qualitative data, quantitative data, and direct employee experiences to aid understanding of why workplace bullying occurs in universities throughout the US. To address higher education workplace bullying, this text offers data-driven interventions for human resource staff and departments to effectively tackle this destructive phenomenon. Drawing on Hollis’ first-hand research which is supported by findings from a 2019 Human Resources data collection, this text identifies populations which are most vulnerable to discrimination within academia. The data shows how human resource departments, executive leadership, and faculty might proactively intervene to prevent workplace bullying. Divided into two parts, the book offers empirical analysis of structural interventions for human resource efforts to combat workplace bullying in higher education. Second, the book puts forth solutions based on empirical findings for organizations and human resources to combat workplace aggression and civility which hurts higher education. Further, the author examines the specific effect of workplace harassment and cyberbullying on women of color, junior faculty, women, and the LGBTQ community. This text will benefit researchers, doctoral students, and conducting higher education research. Additionally, the book focusses on structural issues which interfere with multicultural education more broadly. Those interested in Human Resource Management, the sociology of education, and gender and sexuality studies and will also enjoy this volume.

Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying

Intersecting Distress

Leah P. Hollis

Black Women, Intersectionality, and Workplace Bullying extends and enriches the current literature on workplace bullying by examining specifically how work abuse disproportionality hurts women of color, affecting their mental health negatively and hence their career progression. In this interdisciplinary text, Hollis combines the fields of intersectionality and workplace bullying to present a balanced offering of conceptual essays and empirical research studies. The chapters explore how researchers have previously used empirical studies to address race and gender before arguing that the more complex an identity or intersectional position, such as being a Black gender fluid woman, the more likely a person shall experience workplace bullying. The author also looks at how this affects Black women’s mental health, such as through increased anxiety, depression, insomnia, and self-medicating behaviors, before looking specifically at Black female athletes as a study, the topic of colorism at work and its impact on Black women, and how workplace bullying compromises organizations diversity and inclusion initiatives. This book will be of immense interest to graduate students and academics in the fields of social work, ethnic studies, Black studies, Africana studies, gender studies, political science, sociology, psychology, and social justice. It will also be of interest to those interested in intersectionality and how this relates to race and gender of women.

Disrupt the Not-Telling

Gatekeeping Issues on the Way to Tenure and Promotion for Black Women at HBCUs, MSIs, and PWIs

Leah P. Hollis

In Disrupt the "Not-Telling", Leah P. Hollis, Tara B. Blackshear, and Raquel Muñiz have gathered an expert group of Black scholars across different types of institutions to examine why Black women have been excluded from tenured roles in higher education institutions. Employing a range of theoretical approaches, case studies, and phenomenological approaches, the book analyzes higher education processes and their inequitable impact on Black women. Beyond highlighting the problem, this volume offers theoretically sound approaches and recommends solutions that can assist colleges and universities in creating and maintaining an equitable path to tenure.

Bully Beyond the Tower 2014

A Collection of Peer Reviewed Essays on Workplace Bullying

Leah Hollis, Leah P Hollis Ed D

Bully Beyond the Tower is a collection of peer reviewed essays from academics, attorneys, and practitioners who offer a variety of perspectives on the ills of workplace bullying. Any organization that harbors a bully threatens its own innovation and creativity. Those who endure bullying are subject to brain trauma, emotional trauma, and psychological trauma. This collection offers different insight including global initiatives, restorative solutions, and leadership strategies for overcoming bullying in the workplace. However, without legislation in United States, workplace bullying continues to diminish the creativity, productivity and well-being of workers subjected to status free abuse and harassment. This anthology offers a unique series of diverse perspectives on workplace bullying which will inform organizational leadership and individual targets struggling to find relief from an abusive boss(es) and organizations that support bully the mentality.

Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Considerations in Engaging International Students

Hollis

As researchers, my colleague and I noted that the American culture shifted its attention to the mistreatment of women; we also noted that the community college sector is often absent from the discourse. Furthermore, we recognized that the international student experience was absent from Title IX and sexual violence discussions regardless of the institutional type. After identifying this gap in the literature, we embarked on a qualitative phenomenological study to consider the following question: How do community colleges educate international students entering American culture about Title IX and sexual violence? Therefore, this case study reflects on the process and challenges in recruiting international community college students to the study and the methods for analyzing the data. Furthermore, the study is couched in a contentious history about sexual violence on college campuses. In turn, we considered how international students reflect on Title IX legislation in the midst of seeking an American degree. The study is an intersection of the burgeoning issue of Title IX relating to sexual violence and the growing international student population at U.S. community colleges.

Thin-Walled Composite Protective Structures for Crashworthiness Applications

Recent Advances and Future Developments

A. Praveen Kumar, Tatacipta Dirgantara, Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa

This book summarizes many of the recent advances in the design and application of thin-walled composite protective structures. The past few decades have seen outstanding advances in the use of composite materials in structural applications. Composites have revolutionized traditional design concepts and made possible an unparalleled range of new and exciting possibilities as viable materials for construction. This book presents an extensive survey on recent improvements in the research and development of composites and biocomposites that are used to make structures in various applications. This book deals with design, research and development studies, experimental investigations, theoretical analysis, and fabrication techniques relevant to the application of composites in load-bearing components for assemblies, ranging from individual components such as plates and shells to complete composite structures. This book also focuses the recent advances in biocomposite materials from renewable resources and introduces a potential application of this material. The content is this book benefits the academics, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students in the field of epoxy blends for application as lightweight advanced composite structures.

On the Structure and Development of the Vertebral Column of Amia

Oliver Perry Hay

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The Structure of Perseverance!

Stanley Slaczka

Born October 25, 1970, I come from the enlisted side of the United States Army! I was raised in Wilkins Township just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! I started basic training on October 17, 1990. I was an armored tank crew member! I served four years, and then went on to serve in the United States Army Reserve! I have observed a lot throughout my lifetime. If I could pinpoint one the enormous problems in this country, it would be people are not educated on The Structure of Perseverance! Without this book, The Structure of Perseverance!, I would not have been able to write any other books of mine. Within this book lies the tools as an answer to what we face as obstacles! It brings great joy to me that we can start to solve these problems with this book.

An Inquiry Into the Composition and Structure of Ludus Coventriae

Esther Lydia Swenson

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Distribution and Structure of the Forests of Eastern Nebraska

Charles Lindsay, Edgar Nathaniel Johnson, Helen Heather Blish, John Mulvaney Aikman, Leonard George Worley, Gayle Benjamin Pickwell

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The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey

Egbert J. Bakker

This comprehensive study of the Odyssey sees in meat and meat consumption a centre of gravitation for the interpretation of the poem. It aims to place the cultural practices represented in the poem against the background of the (agricultural) lived reality of the poem's audiences in the archaic age, and to align the themes of the adventures in Odysseus' wanderings with the events that transpire at Ithaca in the hero's absence. The criminal meat consumption of the suitors of Penelope in the civilised space of Ithaca is shown to resonate with the adventures of Odysseus and his companions in the pre-cultural worlds they are forced to visit. The book draws on folklore studies, the anthropology of hunting cultures, the comparative study of oral traditions, and the agricultural history of archaic and classical Greece. It will also be of interest to narratologists and students of folklore and Homeric poetics.