Marie Hutchinson BAppSc(Nurs), GradCert(HA)(UNSW), MHSc(SCU), PhD(UWS) Current areas of research interest and expertise include child and family health nursing and nursing workforce issues including workplace bullying and retention factors. Doctoral research APAI candidate for the study 'Bullying in the workplace: a study of Australian nurses'. The mixed methods study was one of the first comprehensive investigations of the nature, extent and consequences of bullying among Australian nurses. The two validated instruments developed from the study the Workplace Bullying Instrument (WBI) and the Organisational Predictors and Consequences of Bullying Scale (OPCBS) are currently being used in a number of studies of work related violence in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Journal articles
Integrating individual, work group and organizational factors: testing a multidimensional model of bullying in the nursing workplace (with Lesley Wilkes, Debra Jackson, and Margaret H. Vickers), Journal of Nursing Management (2009)
Aim The aim of the present study was to test a multidimensional model of bullying...
The worse you behave, the more you seem to be rewarded: bullying in nursing as organizational corruption (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal (2009)
This paper reports findings from the first, qualitative stage of a national sequential, mixed method...
A new model of bullying in the nursing workplace: organizational characteristics as critical antecedents (with Lesley Wilkes, Margaret H. Vickers, and Debra Jackson), Advances in Nursing Science (2008)
Providing a safe work environment where nurses can practice without fear or threat of aggression...
The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace (with Lesley Wilkes, Margaret H. Vickers, and Debra Jackson), Nurse Researcher (2008)
Like wolves in a pack: stories of predatory alliances of bullies in nursing (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Journal of Managment and Organisation (2006)
The findings from the first, qualitative stage of a larger sequential mixed method study of...
Theses
Bullying in the workplace : a study of Australian nurses, PhD thesis University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, NSW (2007)
Over recent decades, there has been growing recognition that workplace bullying is a pervasive and...
Conference publications
Understanding workplace bullying as an organisationally mediated behaviour - findings from a study of Australian nurses (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Royal College of Nursing Australia Annual Conference and the 42nd Patricia Chomley Memorial Oration (2008)
Australian and international studies have identified workplace bullying as a significant issue for the nursing...
Organisational antecedents and consequences of bullying in the nursing workplace: results from an Australian study (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Royal College of Nursing: Annual International Nursing Research Conference (2007)
The chronic disease burden of workplace bullying: a study of Australian nurses (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), 16th International Council on Women's Health Issues Congress (2006)
The development of a multidimensional workplace bullying instrument in nursing (with Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Proceedings of Balancing organizational competitiveness, ethics, social responsibility and employee rights in the global economy: 14th Annual International Conference Association on Employment Practices and Principles (AEPP) (2006)
The worse you behave, the more you seem to be rewarded!: bullying in nursing as organizational corruption (Presentation) (with Margaret M. Vickers, Debra Jackson, and Lesley Wilkes), Proceedings of APROS 11: Asia Pacific Researchers in Organisation Studies: 11th International Colloquium (2006)
This paper reports findings from the first, qualitative stage of a large national study of...