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Reconsidering Fairness Technologies: A Call for Critical Leadership Study of Mobbing and Managerialism

Sun, April 16, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 2, Colorado

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Workplace mobbing refers to targeting collective hostility at a member with the objective of removal from or marginalization within an organization. Workers in education are nearly three times more likely to be mobbed than the average worker. Coincident with the growth of neoliberal reforms, conditions conducive to workplace mobbing are converging with the increased vulnerability of particular employees. Informed by extensive work in the field and experience as administrators, the six scholar-administrators presenting in this symposium express common concern about mobbing’s insidious and invidious effects, its political and managerial dynamics, and the need for research to build organizational resistance to it.

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