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Workplace Bullying against Graduate Teaching Assistants: Reporting Dynamics
Wed, April 7, 1:00 to 2:30pm EDT (1:00 to 2:30pm EDT), Division D, Division D Poster SessionsAbstract
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are an important part of the higher education workforce. GTAs contribute to their universities as educators and students. However, researchers seldom investigated workplace bullying against GTAs. Reporting bullying to institution administrators/authority figures is a means to combat bullying, however, many bullying victims are reluctant to report bullying. The current study explores the reporting dynamics of workplace bullying behaviors experienced by university GTAs, using a qualitative phenomenological design to understand the phenomenon of GTAs reporting bullying or not. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-seven GTAs from a university located in the mid-Western U.S.