{"id":778,"date":"2023-11-08T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=778"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:18:08","slug":"a-simple-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Story &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-schema-only=\"false\" class=\"wp-block-aioseo-faq\"><h3 class=\"aioseo-faq-block-question\"><\/h3><div class=\"aioseo-faq-block-answer\">\n<p>The infographic shows the relationship between measured absence of bullying,&nbsp;by university, in the 2012 UCU survey, against REF performance (% 4-star&nbsp;publication submissions) in 2021. Points are weighted by sample size. Red are Russell group, blue are post-92 UK universities. Grey band is 95 % confidence limits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-779\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:610px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/bullying_ref4star_marked.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a simple story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even today,&nbsp;there is a widespread fallacy, in particular among leading universities &amp; their administrators,&nbsp; that bullying is the unfortunate price to be paid for achieving and&nbsp;maintaining top performance. Overbearing heads of department justify their behaviour as a part of their university&#8217;s success, without which&nbsp;its top place would never have been attained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the true story is exactly the opposite. If we examine data from&nbsp; the UCU 2012 survey, which shows the rate of staff at each university&nbsp;who reported being &#8220;bullied&#8221; at their institution, and REF research&nbsp;results a decade later, the implication is clear. Universities that are&nbsp;tolerant of bullying deliver bad research results, and the worse the&nbsp;bullying problem, the worse their performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reasons for this are not hard to fathom. Many scholars choose academia because it is a profession which respects their dignity and&nbsp; autonomy, leaving them free to engage their research interests. Thus a&nbsp;department in which scholars are obstructed, demeaned and harassed is not a place where good scholars are likely to want to remain &#8211; and the&nbsp;better an academic&#8217;s career profile, the sooner they will be able to&nbsp;exit. The &#8220;bullying produces results&#8221; argument assumes that heads of department are top scholars guiding the way &#8211; when, more often, they are mediocre and petty scholars who target those whose success they perceive as a threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also interesting is that the effect is perceptible in the data years later. It can take a department many years to recover from an abusive and bullying Head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a simple story. Even today,&nbsp;there is a widespread fallacy, in particular among leading universities &amp; their administrators,&nbsp; that bullying is the unfortunate price to be paid for achieving and&nbsp;maintaining top performance. Overbearing heads of department justify their behaviour as a part of their university&#8217;s success, without which&nbsp;its top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}