At 70, Mr. Vargas Llosa's Trujillo is a man obsessed with his own declining health and sexual prowess -- a control freak, who likes to exercise his droit de seigneur with his followers' women; a bully practiced in the arts of rationalization and manipulation.
It's standard avoid-the-school-bully practice: laugh at yourself before they laugh at you.
Bullies practice their comebacks on other kids all day everyday.
China's low wages and lax regulatory environment are the perfect levers for Wal-Mart's bullying practices.
The second global theme was 'achieving sociocultural dominance', referring to the use of bullying practices to advance potent social and cultural themes from the wider society.
On another level, however, the dynamics of the Turkish sociopolitical context suggest that such bullying practices are being used instrumentally to achieve goals extending beyond the organizations concerned.
The second goal towards which bullying practices were used is less tangible and thus possibly less consciously mobilized, but is no less pernicious.
We hope that our identification of bullying practices as a set of mechanisms for enhancing intergroup inequality may create a sensitivity that contributes to its reduction.
Almost all of our respondents pointed to common, routinized and instrumental bullying practices used in Turkish private and public sector organizations to get rid of unwanted personnel.
As described in the private sector, such bullying practices are used to avoid the financial costs of firing workers deemed unproductive, making this a case of instrumentalized bullying (Salin, 2003a) that achieves an organizational rather than an individual goal.
(Participant-34, marketing manager, private sector, Islamist) Given the supremacy of the AKP in the Turkish political scene, and the increasing dominance of public sector organizations by the party's supporters, reports of socioculturally-themed bullying practices were particularly acute when secularist employees were targeted.
