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Overview

Helge Hoel is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with particular attention to subfields such as sociology and political science, gender studies, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management, as well as health.

The main topics in Hoel's work include workplace violence and bullying, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, gender diversity and inequality, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, intimate partner and family violence, sexual assault and victimization studies, and stalking, cyberstalking, and harassment.

Hoel has published extensively, with notable papers including:
"The ups and downs of LGBs' workplace experiences: discrimination, bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay and bisexual employees in Britain" (2024) in White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York).
"Openness about Sexual Orientation and Exposure to Workplace Bullying" (2022) in Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.

Frequent publication venues for Hoel feature journals such as:

  • The Spanish Journal of Psychology
  • Personnel Review
  • Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Homosexuality
  • Culture and Organization

Hoel collaborates regularly with a number of researchers, including Donatella Di Marco, Duncan Lewis, Anna Einarsdóttir, Alicia Arenas, and Lourdes Munduate.

Hoel's work covers a range of issues related to discrimination, bullying, and workplace experiences of marginalized groups, especially emphasizing the perspectives of lesbian, gay, and bisexual employees. This includes research on the role of human resource professionals in managing workplace bullying and inquiries into openness about sexual orientation within the workplace context.

The combination of social sciences and applied organizational studies characterizes Hoel's contributions, with an interdisciplinary approach to understanding workplace dynamics and inequalities. Their research outputs contribute to ongoing discourse in the fields of gender diversity, workplace harassment, and policy.

Best Publications

  • Measuring exposure to bullying and harassment at work: Validity, factor structure and psychometric properties of the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised

    Staale Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Guy Notelaers

  • The Concept of Bullying and Harassment at Work: The European Tradition

    Ståle Valvatne Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary L. Cooper

  • Empirical Findings on Prevalence and Risk Groups of Bullying in the Workplace

    Dieter Zapf;Jordi Escartín;Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel

  • Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace: International Perspectives in Research and Practice

    Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary L Cooper

  • Organisational antecedents of workplace bullying

    Helge Hoel;Denise Salin

  • A summary review of literature relating to workplace bullying

    Charlotte Rayner;Helge Hoel

  • The Experience of Bullying in Great Britain: The Impact of Organizational Status

    Helge Hoel;Cary L. Cooper;Brian Faragher

  • Workplace Bullying: What we know, who is to blame and what can we do?

    Charlotte Rayner;Helge Hoel;Cary L. Cooper

  • Bullying and Harrassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory, Research and Practice

    Stale Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary Cooper

  • The Concept of Bullying at work: the European tradition

    S. Einarsen;H. Hoel;D. Zapf;C.L. Cooper

  • Preventing Violence and Harassment in the Workplace

    Martino V Di;H. Hoel;C.L. Cooper

  • Empirical findings on bullying in the workplace

    Ståle Einarsen;Dieter Zapf;Helge Hoel;Maarit Vartia

  • The cost of violence/stress at work and the benefits of a violence/stress-free working environment

    Helge Hoel

  • Bullying is Detrimental to Health, but All Bullying Behaviours Are Not Necessarily Equally Damaging.

    Helge Hoel;Brian Faragher;Cary L. Cooper

  • Leadership Styles as Predictors of Self-reported and Observed Workplace Bullying

    Helge Hoel;Lars Glasø;Jørn Hetland;Cary L. Cooper

  • Organisational effects of bullying

    H. Hoel;S. Einarsen;C.L. Cooper;D. Zapf

  • Individual Consequences of Workplace Bullying/Mobbing

    Annie Hogh;Eva Gemzøe Mikkelsen;Åse Marie Hansen

  • Social Antecedents of Bullying: A Social Interactionist Perspective

    Joel H. Neuman;Robert A. Baron

  • Victimization in the school and the workplace: are there any links?

    Peter K. Smith;Monika Singer;Helge Hoel;Cary L. Cooper

  • Organisational Causes of Workplace Bullying

    Denise Salin;Helge Hoel

  • Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace : Developments in Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition

    Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary Cooper

  • The concept of bullying at work: the European tradition STÅLE EINARSEN , HELGE HOEL , DIETER ZAPF AND C A RY L . COOPER : The European tradition

    Ståle Einarsen;Helge Hoel;Dieter Zapf;Cary L. Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Cary L. Cooper
Cary L. Cooper University of Manchester
Ståle Einarsen
Ståle Einarsen University of Bergen
Dieter Zapf
Dieter Zapf Goethe University Frankfurt
Guy Notelaers
Guy Notelaers University of Bergen
Marilyn J. Davidson
Marilyn J. Davidson University of Manchester
Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Morten Birkeland Nielsen National Institute of Occupational Health
Annie Hogh
Annie Hogh University of Copenhagen
Jørn Hetland
Jørn Hetland University of Bergen
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen
Beatrice van der Heijden
Beatrice van der Heijden Radboud University

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