Queen Bee Mobbing: Black Women Tenure-Track Professors Disproportionately Subjected to Multiple Female Bullies

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Abstract

Workplace bullying is destructive behavior, which hurts employees and organizational productivity. Fifty-eight percent of higher education respondents report being affected by workplace bullying. Further, recent studies have confirmed that Black women are more likely to face workplace bullying in higher education. With this in mind, this chi-square analysis that utilizes Queen Bee theory, verifies that Black women assistant professors are also more likely, at a statistically significant level, to face mobbing (multiple bullies) from other women when compared to white women assistant professors.

Author

• Leah P. Hollis, Morgan State University