Dear Burke, 

There are bad people and there are good people. This is no easy issue and you may turn to the wrong person for help and advise:

International Journal of Manpower,

Vol. 20 No. 1/2, 1999, pp. 106-118.

Workplace bullying ± interim findings of a study in further

and higher education in Wales

Duncan Lewis

KATHRINE M. KOLANKO, CYNTHIA CLARK, KATHLEEN T. HEINRICH, DANA OLIVE, JOANNE FARLEY SEREMBUS, and K. SUSAN SIFFORD (2006)

Academic Dishonesty, Bullying, Incivility, and Violence: Difficult Challenges Facing Nurse Educators. Nursing Education Perspectives: January 2006, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 34-43.

Conclusions

Faculty members who attended spoke of their frustration with dishonest and uncivil behavior. Our panel came to some fruitful conclusions:

Voicing our concerns 

Faculty members need to know their institution's policies surrounding these issues as well as the support services offered for faculty and students.

Students also need to know expected behaviors, consequences, and support services.

Confidentiality and secrecy are not the same. Reports of unacceptable behavior need to be documented and presented to appropriate persons on a need-to-know basis.

Due process rights need to be adhered to in the disposition of each situation.

Finally, nurse educators and our students need to be part of the solutions.

Burak:

I think as an academic, I would take Beatrice's advice and follow the path for officially dealing with such issues. The challenge I guess in doing the latter is to be able to collect and present the evidence in an objective way and remain focused on doing my job in best possible way.

Many thanks,

Debra

Dear Burak - I'm not sure what you mean by asking what academics should 'do' when they see mobbing. There's a substantial research literature surrounding school and workplace bullying, which I'm happy to give you pointers on - but is that what you mean? Maybe you could get back to me? Best wishes, Stephen. 

Christina Salmivalli is a Finnish professor specialized in this area:

Bullying and the peer group: A review

Christina Salmivalli 

Aggression and Violent Behavior 15 (2010) 112–120

KiVa: The national anti-bullying program in Finland

http://www.ncab.org.au/Assets/Files/Salmivalli,C.%20Kiva%20Koula%20-%20The%20National%20Antibullying%20Program%20in%20Finland.pdf

Dear Dr. Stephen;

Could you please send the research studies that you like most in this subject.

I consider the psychological warfare and the mobbing. As far as I understand sometimes they are related in the cases. Sometimes they are separated.  Moreover, I start to think that sometimes the number of people involved the psychological warfare and the mobbing are very much. Like huge masses.

Moreover, I also start to think that these issues or acts (violent etc.) are related with the wars in our World. The mass social conflicts, civil wars and wars are also related with psychological warfare and the mobbing.

As far as I realize and understand some bad people or groups use the psychological warfare and the mobbing for their bad aims. These acts affect some regions and the world face with problems such as wars.

I try to understand what researchers and academics should do when they observe these kind of things? Should they discuss this with govermental bodies or United Nations Bodies? Should they discuss this in researchers and academics groups? Should they discuss this in conferences?

I try to find sufficient number of publications and understand these two issues very well.

I would like to thank all of the researchers and academics contribute to this subject and to my question.

Best Regards

Hi, Burak,

I appreciate that you have raised the issue of what we as academics and researchers should do when we become aware of bullying and mobbing. I think we have opportunities to contribute to addressing this in several ways:

1. when we are present when it happens, i.e., witness it, we can take action to at the very least disrupt the interaction as it is happening. We can also engage the actor(s) and/or the target(s) in conversation about what is going on, often after the incident. And in some cases, we can choose to take it to the attention of others in formal positions to address it.   It is our responsibility as community members to address these behaviors (briefly earlier before they take hold) within our own contexts. By staying silent or worse yet joining in, we in essence communicate that these kinds of interactions and relationships are okay. too often I hear that "Smart people are abrasive" or that "Tenured faculty can do whatever they want"...both are ways of excusing behaviors and letting ourselves off the hook for addressing our colleagues on this. I have designed bystander training for faculty on ways to address the behaviors of their colleagues to facilitate and support more constructive communicative climates.If you want more specifics about that, just send me a message.

2. we can take the research that is available, summarize the key findings and share this with our colleagues in a variety of venues (conferences, department discussions etc).

3. We can also share this knowledge with governmental bodies. For example, the Healthy Workplace Bill developed by David Yamada, Suffolk University Law School and Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute is currently being considered in a number of state legislatures. Check out workplacebullying.org for more information.Several countries consider these behaviors and relationships to be threats to occupational health and safety. several Canadian provinces have legislation regarding these behaviors.All of these have been grounded in deeper understandings provided by the extensive research in this area. 

4. The ILO already has several pieces out on such behaviors in workplaces and denotes them as violence. 

Hope this information is useful to you.

Later, LL

Dear researchers and academics;

Very important

Populism is a major problem in science and academic life too.

It is not correct for this life and for sure also afterlife.

There are some articles about "populism".

For instance: "Let's actually do something about populism" http://www.aei.org/publication/its-still-the-economy-stupid-2/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITHISWEEK&utm_campaign=Weekly092416

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear researchers and academics;

Two relevant articles in some parts of this subject:

Intelligence Support to Psychological Operations: The Ongoing Challenge

by First Lieutenant Katie Winwood

Doctrinal Tension: The Chaplain and Information Operations

by Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Kenneth Lawson

MIPB April-June 2009 PB 34-O9-2 Operations in OEF Afghanistan

Researchers, who study in this subject, can find the whole magazine on web.

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear researchers and academics;

There are some very interesting terms with this subject. Some of them are

Electronic Warfare (EW)

Computer Network Operations (CNO)

Psychological Operations (PSYOP)

Military Deception (MILDEC)

Operations Security (OPSEC)

Information Operations (IO)

see literature for very interesting studies and also visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Operations_(United_States)

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear Researchers and Academics;

Some means or tools of psychological warfare and mobbing:

like a weapon or bullet or nuclear bomb, worse than them

sounds, voices, photos, pictures, movies, videos

e-mails, telephone call records, short messages (SMS)

manuscripts, websites, papers, books

ladies, girlfriends, fiancees, family members

dreams

I know these war tools very well. 

Do you know any means or tools of psychological warfare and mobbing?

Please share them!

nuclear bomb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNYe_UaWZ3U

bullet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTpceymbX6w

psychological warfare

worse than those ones.

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear Researchers and Academics;

Some possible feelings and emotions psychological warfare and mobbing simultaneously or sequentially:

Positive (Good) Ones

amazed, free, interested, satisfied, kind, fortunate, thankful, peaceful, comfortable, pleased, encouraged, surprised, certain, loving, sensitive, devoted, attracted, passionate, warm

vs.

Negative (Unpleasant) Ones

jealousy, irritated, annoyed, upset, hateful, aggressive, boiling, disappointed, angry, discouraged, guilty, irritated, annoyed, upset, hateful, miserable, doubtful, uncertain, lost, alone, fatigued, fearful, anxious, pained, tortured, heartbroken, unhappy 

Possible Consequence

suicide attempt or/and suicide or similar acts or actions or attacks.

Or

homicide or murder  or similar acts or actions or attacks.

Do you know any feelings and emotions related with psychological warfare and mobbing?

Please share them!

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Burak:

I am a victim of workplace bullying and my first reaction is one of disbelief that academics can behave this way. I try not to get too worked up about the situation as I am used to it ever since I entered academia. My first resort is to pray about the situation and ask for clarity of vision and understanding to know what to do. I can attest to the success of the latter strategy as I have seen how the bullies continue to "eat their own words". I hope this insight is of some use to the discussion.

Many thanks,

Debra

Dear Debra;

Thank you very much for sharing your experiences. 

I hope many academics and researchers and people feel free to share their experiences and thoughts on psychological warfare and mobbing.

World people can learn a lot the facts and the reality and what has been going on and how has been going on.

Thank you for your contribution.

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear Researchers, Academics, People, Person and Special People or Special Person ;

For those who do not know the meaning of psychological warfare

"Psychological warfare, also called psywar, the use of propaganda against an enemy, supported by such military, economic, or political measures as may be required. Such propaganda is generally intended to demoralize the enemy, to break his will to fight or resist, and sometimes to render him favourably disposed to one’s position. Propaganda is also used to strengthen the resolve of allies or resistance fighters. The twisting of personality and the manipulation of beliefs in prisoners of war by brainwashing and related techniques can also be regarded as a form of psychological warfare."........

https://www.britannica.com/topic/psychological-warfare

"Psychological Operations or PSYOP are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of organizations, groups, and individuals. Used in all aspects of war, it is a weapon whose effectiveness is limited only by the ingenuity of the commander using it. A proven winner in combat and peacetime, PSYOP is one of the oldest weapons in the arsenal of man. It is an important force protector/combat multiplier and a non-lethal weapons system."

http://www.psywarrior.com/psyhist.html

"One of the most powerful yet commonly overlooked aspects of warfare is that of psychological manipulation. People are often made so aware of the brutality and violence of war itself, that they ignore a commonly employed weapon, known as psychological warfare."

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/ww2/projects/psychological-warfare/index.html

"Psychological warfare involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups."

http://www.rand.org/topics/psychological-warfare.html

"Psychological warfare actions stem from the possibility to influence people’s minds based on theories and concepts related to psychosociology. Psychological warfare is thus a true war of intelligences employing manipulation of information, misinformation and intoxication with information, leading to the opponent mental destabilisation, mental influence, and deterrence. Psychological warfare takes into consideration all the details related to the enemy target, beliefs, convictions, vulnerabilities, likes and dislikes. Once the target motivations are known, psychological operations can be carried out. "

http://smg.mapn.ro/gmr/Engleza/Ultimul_nr/alexe-p.89-98.pdf

Please also visit

https://www.psywar.org/

"FM 3-05.301 (FM 33-1-1) MCRP 3-40.6A

Psychological Operations Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures"

https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-05-301.pdf

http://www.online-psychology-degree.com/psyops/

Special Operations

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_05.pdf

New World War

http://www.newworldwar.org/psyop.htm

Psychological Operations Principles and Case Studies

https://media.defense.gov/2017/Apr/07/2001728209/-1/-1/0/B_0018_GOLDSTEIN_FINDLEY_PSYCHLOGICAL_OPERATIONS.PDF

Your contributions are very much appreciated.

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Hello. The following maybe it's too late for your research, Burak, but always useful for any research on mobbing. Please take a look at these three websites:

1) http://www.kwesthues.com/

2) http://www.mobbingportal.com/

3) https://web.archive.org/web/20061004041403/http://leymann.se/

Greetings.

First of all, mobbing and psychological warfare happen everywhere. Mobbing and psychological warfare are encountered both in the business world and in the academic world. But first of all, it should be considered that mobbing is also a type of psychological warfare.

Mobbing is a type of psychological pressure generally applied by supervisors to employees and is generally applied to intimidate employees. Mobbing is used to get employees to resign, to establish authority or for many other reasons. Although this situation seems to harm the employee at first, the institutions suffer the real damage. This is true in both the business world and the scientific world.

Today, employees are protected by law against mobbing and psychological warfare. However, superiors can apply mobbing despite the law. What people who observe mobbing and psychological warfare in both the scientific world and the business world should do is to investigate the cause. Because the reason for each person who practices mobbing differs from the others.

Dear All;

Thank you very much for your interest.

"I do not believe mobbing, psychological warfare, bullying are defined as crimes." Artur Braun

"First of all, mobbing and psychological warfare happen everywhere." Cemile Turalı

Accordingly, I understand that the people of the World have a huge problem. This tool (mobbing, psychological warfare, bullying and similar) is used for developing war, terror and similar. Hence, the persons who use it as a tool for developing war, terror and similar, are the real criminals. If the people of the World want to stop war, terror and similar, they should stop the causes of them. If they don't, they do not need to stop the causes.

It all depends the intentions and plans..

Its all about the intentions and plans.

An informative source for all of us is

"Psychological Operations

Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow"

http://www.psywarrior.com/

It is very informative and well organized information source.

I have been improving my studies and my publications accordingly.

I would like to add that its data is a great feature (factor, indicator, etc.) to predict conflicts and wars. I have been working forecasting (projection, predictions, etc.). I try to predict it in my robots and platforms (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning etc.).

There are already some very informative tools and predictors.

Please see

CoupCast - Political Forecasting

https://oneearthfuture.org/activities/coup-cast

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project

https://acleddata.com/#/dashboard

https://acleddata.com/dashboard/#/dashboard

PeaceTech Lab

https://www.peacetechlab.org/

As a result, when people (anybody) observe this tool in operation (mobbing, psychological warfare, bullying and similar), they should keep in mind (expect) that the next event will (may) be an armed conflict and war (armed).

When I mean armed, I mean any type of weapons:

Examples of weapons:

chemical biological radiological and nuclear and similar

hands, fingers, teeth and similar

cyber and similar

mobbing, bullying and similar

heat, heatwave, sound, sound wave, electricity and similar

In short anything and everything

see

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/terrorism/expertise/countering-chemical-biological-radiological-and-nuclear-terrorism.html

South Korean Special Forces / Hand to Hand Knife fighting training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1vfJ6eOTMM

Special Forces Hand to Hand Combat ᴴᴰ #2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY8k8K-kN0A

US Navy Seals VS Russian Spetsnaz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAu6XypsbFo

Russian Marines - Hand To Hand Combat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SQuRCSrjAQ

Crazy Training Spetsnaz - "Hand To Hand Combat" (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KceCv-Rx4

Russian special forces hand to hand combat - training and combat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGODUL6rno

Crazy Training Spetsnaz - "BADASS" | Hand To Hand Combat (2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwFM9uzSCw

Русские войска это вам не Сирийцы.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZwgPkLLYzY

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Thank you very much for your contributors with their answers to my questions.

I need to emphasize that of course, R&D and real world investments (e.g. renewable power plants, power transmission lines) under these circumstances are almost impossible.

Dear Artur

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Have a nice day

Best Regards

Dear Joel

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Have a nice day

I am doing fine. I try to guess new conflicts and wars in the World.

Those conflicts and wars predictions are important for me, because I have been developing some important robots and platforms.

Those are Global Power Plants Developers, Global Power Plants Engineers, Global Power Plants Owners, Global Power Prediction Systems, Global Profile Analyses Systems, Global Social Network Analyses Systems.

Such large conflicts and wars have started with psychological warfare and mobbing.

I know it from the cases in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Ukraine and similar.

On these days, I expect large size conflicts and wars in Iran, Turkiye (Turkey) etc.

Please as far as I get news in those locations there are long term psychological warfare and mobbing cases.

As far as I observed related to my research studies Iran and Turkiye (Turkey) had been destabilized like Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Ukraine and similar.

Hence sooner or later powerful impacting events may happen.

For instance division into 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. parts.

Civil wars, wars and any similar.

Psychological warfare and mobbing are good indicators for those kinds of predictions.

We will see.

Of course demographics have changed a lot due to refugee crisis

Syrian Humanitarian Disaster

DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3772.4248

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/27/9394959/syria-refugee-map

https://data2.unhcr.org/en/documents/details/37123

https://twitter.com/refugees/status/1238396503410069506?lang=ca

But some estimations still being made, can be made based on previous experiences

For instance

After destabilization

Division of Iraq

https://www.bayancenter.org/en/2021/02/2162/

After destabilization

Possible division of Iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#/media/File:Iran_ethnoreligious_distribution_2004.jpg

https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/530633

Possible division of Turkiye (Turkey)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minorities_in_Turkey#/media/File:Ethnolinguistic_map_of_Turkey.jpg

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Demographics_of_Turkey

Also some other indicators

Another indicator is the economy, income inequality, inflation and similar

For instance

Exchange rates

https://evds2.tcmb.gov.tr/

From very low to very high and very high volatility, fluctuations

Inflation rate for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Turkey from July 2016 to March 2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/895080/turkey-inflation-rate/

or

https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Consumer-Price-Index-October-2021-37388&dil=2

High to extremely high

When I combine all those kinds of factors, I can come up with some rough predictions, of course.

Destabilization.

Then followed by governmental changes, government overthrown, civil wars, protests, wars and similar.

That means more destabilization.

Life. Who knows what will happen? This is life.

Strange times and maybe crossroads

An article in Sabah on 15.09.2010

https://www.sabah.com.tr/galeri/yasam/2023_turkiye_haritasi_nasil_olacak

Economy on 05.06.2022

https://www.bloomberght.com/tahvil/faiz

https://www.bloomberght.com/tahvil/tr-5-yillik-tahvil

https://www.bloomberght.com/tahvil/tr-10-yillik-tahvil

https://evds2.tcmb.gov.tr/

https://www.tuik.gov.tr/

Many proposals of new government systems and borders by many different groups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWKpYMb_G9E

https://www.reddit.com/r/KGBTR/comments/nkp4gw/v2_t%C3%BCrkiyeye_%C5%9Fu_tarz_bir_eyalet_sistemi_gelse/

https://www.kizlarsoruyor.com/gundem/q14808056-turkiye-icin-eyalet-sistemi-iyi-bir-secenek-olabilir-mi-sizce

http://www.incisozluk.com.tr/w/t%C3%BCrkiye-eyalet-sistemi-ile/

http://www.medyagunebakis.com/haber_detay.asp?id=10059&menuid=66

https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-turkiye-39599042

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qnjmGoySg

http://www.uskgov.com/

For reasoning, see an informative source and its explanations

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8

We will wait and see what will happen. Then we will continue our lives, of course.

I try to reach the best models in my robots and platforms that can deal with all these issues. I think and hope that my robots and platforms will help power and energy industry a lot.

Strange times and maybe crossroads

Performance and results of long-term economic, agricultural, education, housing, medical, social, etc. models

Inflation Rate | World

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/inflation-rate?continent=world

Top Ten

1. Venezuela 222

2. Sudan 221

3. Lebanon 206

4. Syria 139

5. Zimbabwe 132

6. Turkey 73.5

7. Suriname 59.8

8. Argentina 58

9. Iran 39.3

10. Sri Lanka 39.1

"You Call It Inflation, I Call It Theft" by Bill Flax on Mar 3, 2011

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billflax/2011/03/03/you-call-it-inflation-i-call-it-theft/?sh=5e4d5c572bdb

"Don’t let them tell you inflation is good for the poor. It’s not" BY GUSTAVO FLORES-MACIAS on November 16, 2021

https://fortune.com/2021/11/16/inflation-is-not-good-for-the-poor-biden-gustavo-flores-macias-cornell/

How Inflation Steals from the Poor & Gives to the Rich | The Wealth Transfer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9NLc6j_514

"Inflation Is Theft" by Hans F. Sennholz and Steven Horwitz on June 1, 1995