Are You a Target of Workplace Bullying?
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September 4th, 2009
Labor Day Remembering the place of working people – 13′ min.
Dr. Gary Namie
Restoring dignity for the underclasses with help from Franklin Roosevelt, Mark Twain (Hal Holbrook), Andrew Cuomo, Harry Chapin.
Read the report cited in the podcast: No Rhyme or Reason: The ‘Heads I Win, Tails You Lose’ Bank Bonus Culture by Andrew Cuomo, NY State Attorney General
Download Podcast 9 (in .mp3 format) or Subscribe to the Podcasts.
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Don’t miss the accompanying podcast by
Guestcaster Carol Fehner – Podcast 8
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, bailout, bonuses, CEO compensation, FDR, Harry Chapin, JP Morgan Chase, Mark Twain, Morgan & Stanley, Roosevelt, TARP
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September 5th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding political party affiliation and political ideology.
Because bullying ignores gender and rank boundaries, it makes sense that hyperaggressive perpetrators of abusive misconduct do not identify with a particular political party. Nor are targets selected principally based on a political ideology.
However, in the 2007 WBI survey and now again in the 2010 WBI national survey, the reported prevalence rates for bullying differ based on party affiliation and ideology. Here are the results and comparisons with the national average.
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Tags: conservative, democratic, liberal, moderate, political affiliation, politics, republican, workplace bullying
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September 5th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding gender.
Gender of targets: 58% are women; 42% are men
Gender of perpetrators: 62% men; 38% women
Men bullies target men in 55.5% of cases; women in 45.5%
What tends to make news (based on the 2007 WBI findings) is that women bullies target women in 79.8% of cases; men in 20.2%. In 2007, the woman-on-woman bullying prevalence was 71%. Now it is 80%. Looks like the American workplace is grower ever more toxic for women, at the hands of women.
The frequencies of all gender dyads of all bullying: 34% male perp/male target; 30% female perp/female target; 28% male perp/female target; and 8% female perp/male target.
For our set of alternative explanations for this phenomenon, read this. and a UK story. and the Today Show
WBI Research Director, Gary Namie, PhD
© 2010, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Tags: 2010 WBI survey, gender, WBI-Zogby, woman-on-woman
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September 3rd, 2010
I want to love HR. I know good HR people. One shining example was a 2009 WBI University graduate. She was accustomed to serving at the executive level, as Senior Vice President, in several hospitals. When we met, she had lost two previous jobs simply because she dared to stand up to senior manager bullies. Each time, the CEOs terminated her and kept their buddies. We withhold her name so she can work again.
Another good person is a New York City-based HR professional who blogs and has written a book called the HR Toolkit and works with our NY State group to pass the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill, despite SHRM’s official opposition to the legislation.
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Tags: HR, human resources, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
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September 3rd, 2010
Dr. Gary Namie suggests that an alternative meaning of “global competitiveness” be adopted in America. Less hardening, more humane treatment of workers as done by the globally competitive Europeans.
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September 1st, 2010
Ed Wasserman was a reporter and is now a professor of journalism ethics at Washington & Lee University. He opined in his Aug. 29 newspaper column on the media about the Kevin Morrissey suicide story at the University of Virginia that would not have been a story without the “tilt of coverage toward this hot new social malady” (thanks for the back-handed compliment about awareness about workplace bullying).
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Tags: Edward Wasserman, Kevin Morrissey, suicide, Ted Genoways, University of Virginia, Virginia Quarterly Review, VQR, Washington & Lee, workplace bullying
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August 30th, 2010
In August, 2010 the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) commissioned Zogby International to conduct a survey of adult Americans. The results showed that workplace bullying is still a problem for 53 million Americans. In the scientific, national poll, 34.4% of Americans report personally being bullied. By including those who only witness it, 49% of the population is aware of bullying at work, while 51% say that have neither experienced nor seen it.
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Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
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August 27th, 2010
NBC’s new fall show “Outsourced” and New Line Cinema’s 2011 movie “Horrible Bosses” speak volumes about our attitudes toward job loss and abusive workplaces. Both projects promote dilbert-like fun while simultaneously mocking employees. It’s all a distraction to prevent our focus on employers making horrific decisions — dumping working Americans on the street while chasing cheap labor elsewhere or propping up horrific bullies instead of purging them. Are they laughing at us or with us?
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Tags: call centers, horrible bosses, India, ITES-BPO, layoffs, NBC, New Line, outsourced, Premilla D'Cruz
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August 27th, 2010
Disagreeableness or antagonism as a personality trait certainly seems to part of most bullies’ personalities. New research (published August 16, 2010 in Hypertension) links the trait with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) for both genders, but more pronounced in women. Antagonistic people have a higher risk of stroke. The finding strengthens the case that evidence exists that psychosocial factors impact health as much as physical factors do.
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Tags: agreeableness, antagonistic personality, arterial wall thickening, CVD, disagreeableness, heart attack, IMT, NEO, personality, stroke
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August 25th, 2010
Celebrate with us!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!
The Saskatoon chapter of Business & Professional Women hosts the
Powerless to Powerful Conference
Empowering ourselves against workplace bullying
Saturday-Sunday October 23-24
Travelodge, 106 Circle Drive, Saskatoon
Saskatchewan
Hon. D. Morgan, Q.C.
Invited Guests:
• Don Morgan, MLA, Minister of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety
• Peter J. Barnacle, Woloshyn & Co. Barristers, Labour & Employment specialist
• Dr. Ruth Namie & Dr. Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute, presentations on Sat. Oct. 23
Ruth: (1) Impact of Bullying on Individuals, Family & Community; (2) Targets & Self-Defeating Strategies
Gary: (1) Identifying Bullying; (2) Converting Witnesses to Interveners; (3) Causes of Bullying in Societal & Organizational Traditions
• Shelle Rose Chavert & others
Registration details: Early (before Sept. 23) $295 (CDN); Sept 24 – day of event, $395.
Online registration will be available soon. Watch this space.
Tags: BPW, Freedom Week, Gary Namie, Ruth Namie, Saskatoon, SK, workplace bullying
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August 24th, 2010
Celebrate with us!
To help celebrate Freedom Week 2010 in Northern California, spend
An Evening with Ruth and Gary Namie
Tuesday October 19, South San Francisco – Grosvenor Best Western Hotel
Wednesday October 20, Sacramento — Radisson Sacramento
Each night the doors open at 6 pm.
The Drs. Namie will lead a seminar from 7 to 9 pm covering.
• Updates on the newest science related to bullying
• Status of the workplace bullying movement begun in Benicia in ’97
• Employer responses to bullying
• Status of the law in various states
Afterwards, members of California Healthy Workplace Advocates (CHWA) will be present to describe the 2011 campaign to enact the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill.
S. San Francisco hotel location: 380 S. Airport Blvd., SSF
Sacramento hotel location: 500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento
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Tags: California Healthy Workplace Advocates, CHWA, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Ruth Namie, workplace bullying
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