Heinz Leymann

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Heinz Leymann (born July 17, 1932 in Wolfenbüttel , Lower Saxony , † February 26, 1999 in Stockholm ) was a business economist , qualified psychologist and is considered a pioneer in bullying research .

Life

Heinz Leymann lived in Sweden from 1955 . In 1978 he wrote a dissertation on the subject of industrial psychology . From 1982 he was an associate professor at Stockholm University . From 1979 to 1990 he was head of research at the Reich Institute for Industrial Engineering . In 1990 he received his doctorate from the Psychiatric Institute of Umeå University (Dr. med. Sci.). From 1992 until his death he held a chair in ergonomics at Umeå University.

Works

His first work on bullying in the workplace is an exploratory study with Bo-Göran Gustavsson. With his book Mobbing: Psychoterror at work and how you can defend yourself against it , Leymann laid the foundation for mobbing research in German-speaking countries in 1993 .

Leymann developed the Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror , a catalog of 45 acts of bullying that can be used to identify bullying.

literature

  • Bo-Göran Gustavsson, Heinz Leymann: Psykiskt våld i arbetslivet - Två explorativa intervjuundersökningar [Psychological violence in the world of work - Two exploratory interview studies] . Arbetarskyddsstyrelsen [Swedish Directorate for Employment Protection], Stockholm 1984 (Research report 1984: 42)
  • Heinz Leymann (1993). Bullying - Psychological Terrorism in the Workplace and How to Defend Against It . 14th edition Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-13351-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Leymann, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-German business economist, certified psychologist and is considered a pioneer in bullying research
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1999
Place of death Stockholm