Our Affiliates
Workplace Bullying Institute, Legislative Campaign
The premier U.S. research and education organization dedicated to passing laws for the eradication Workplace Bullying. Created and maintained by the U.S. leaders of the anti-bullying movement, the Drs. Namie. Authors of The Bully At Work.
Legislator Education, Healthy Workplace Bill
Information for State Legislators who are considering being sponsors of the WBI anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill
The Work Doctor®, Inc.
The premier North American consulting firm to address Workplace Bullying -- Employer Solutions
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More Anti-Bullying Organizations in the U.S.
New Workplace Institute
The New Workplace Institute is a new (in 2007) non-profit research and education center promoting healthy, productive, socially responsible workplaces. We recommend his Minding the Workplace blog.
American Society for Ethics in Education
Jeff La Marca's campaign to expose the hypocrisy in public education. This man has singlehandedly beaten the system like no other!
National Association For Prevention of Teacher Abuse
Thousands of teachers in thousands of public school districts across the United States are abused by administrators, school boards and their unions. The NAPTA web site documents this mistreatment.
2 Safe Schools, A School Bus Driver Who Dared to Care for Kids' Safety
James Kraemer was inappropriately punished for 'insubordination' by a lowly supervisor in a rural Oregon school district. Read Kraemer's insightful essay about the role good unions could play.
The Readings -- Chris and Eric
Nashville songwriters and performers who wrote Wanda's Song -- a bullying tale. They offer it as a theme for the Workplace Bullying Institute.
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In Canada
Mobbing.ca
Helping to make "mobbing" a household word in Canada. Created by a formerly bullied artist. Features great anti-bullying posters available for download. Lots of links.
No Bully For Me (Canada)
Based in Vancouver, B.C., No Bully for Me is a voluntary group working to support the targets of workplace bullying, provide information, promote examples of good practice and act for changes in attitudes to this damaging pandemic.
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In Britian
The Workplace Bullying Site--Employment Law
A site written and maintained by a UK law school graduate, Andy Ellis, providing help and advice to targets. Andy is a veteran of Employment Tribunals, specialized courts which adjudicate complaints by employees against employers.
Andrea Adams Trust
The Andrea Adams Trust is the world's first, and the UK's only, non-political and non-profit seeking registered charity dealing exclusively with workplace bullying.
Just Fight On (UK) Network by and for Targets
New in 2004, run by Jo Anne Brown, a former airline employee who runs two London support groups and seeks to empower all targets worldwide by addressing all aspects of recovery and moving on.
Bully OnLine
Tim Field, founder, UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line, author of 'Bully In Sight' . A site emphasizing the bully's personality as psychopathic. Tim passed in January, 2006.
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In Other Parts of the World
The Mobbing Encyclopedia
In Memoriam to the "Father of the International Movement" Heinz Leymann, PhD, MD--Sweden. This extensive site reflects Leymann's commitment to studying the health impact of the phenomenon. Unfortunately, this world pioneer, who started the international movement, passed at an early age.
About Bullying, Emotional Abuse, Harassment and Work Trauma (South Africa)
Informational site about bullying and home to the Foundation for the Study of Work Trauma, founded by leading expert Susan Marais-Steinman, co-author of Corporate Hyenas at Work: How to Spot and Outwit them by being 'Hyenawise.'
Beyond Bullying Association (New Zealand)
The NZ organization founded by Andrea Needham. First NZ book on bullying in 2003 by Needham: Workplace Bullying: The Costly Business Secret (Penguin)
Australian: Know Bull! by Design
This Australian anti-bullying website empowers bullied targets and witnesses and text to raise awareness and expose workplace bullying.
Bully Busting, Australia
Evelyn Field, registered psychologist, Victoria, Australia, author of Bully Busting and friend of the Drs. Namie. This website explores both bullying at work and the schoolyard variety.
No Bully Zone (New Zealand)
Mostly for kids, but this site shows that government can get involved in bullying prevention activity. And we endorse the Whole School, community approach to school bullying.
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Academics Researching Workplace Bullying
Friends of the Workplace Bullying Institute
Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, PhD
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
The emergent US academic. She is the only US member of the Board of the new (in 2008) International Association on Bullying and Harassment at Work. Pam delivered a keynote address at the Montreal 2008 conference. Read some of her research at the WBI Research section.
David Yamada, J.D.
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
David is author of the seminal legal treatise on workplace bullying (Georgetown Law Journal, 2000), author of the Healthy Workplace Bill introduced in state legislatures throughout the U.S. and Board member of the Workplace Bullying Institute. He founded and directs The New Workplace Institute non-profit research and education center promoting healthy, productive, socially responsible workplaces based at Suffolk Law School. David presented a paper at the Montreal 2008 conference. Read some of his research at the WBI Research section.
Charlotte Rayner, PhD
University of Portsmouth, England
Charlotte is the President of the new (in 2008) International Association on Bullying and Harassment at Work. She was a key player in the Montreal 2008 conference. In 2000, she generously gave a keynote address at the U.S. Workplace Bullying Conference.
Helge Hoel, PhD
University of Manchester Business School (UMIST), England
Helge delivered a keynote address at the Montreal 2008 conference.
Stele Einarsen, PhD
University of Bergen, and the Bergen Bullying Research Group, Norway
StŠµle delivered a keynote address at the Montreal 2008 conference.
Angelo Soares, PhD
University of Quebec at Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Angelo was the Chair of the Montreal 2008 conference hosted by his university. He conducts research and provides expert guidance on matters relating to the first North American anti-bullying (psychological harassment) law in Quebec.
Michael Sheehan, PhD
University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Michael was a key presenter the Montreal 2008 conference. In Australia, he co-founded the Beyond Bullying Association, conducted research and wrote books. In 2000, he kindly gave a keynote address at the U.S. Workplace Bullying Conference.
Duncan Lewis, PhD
University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Duncan was a key presenter the Montreal 2008 conference.
Ken Westhues, PhD
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Ken was a key presenter the Montreal 2008 conference. He is the premier academician who addresses mobbing in universities by authoring books and articles. In 2000, he generously gave a keynote address at the U.S. Workplace Bullying Conference. His critiques of the anti-bullying movement keep us all honest.
Robert Sutton, PhD
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Bob conducts research and writes books on a myriad of organization-related topics. His brush with workplace bullying was when he authored the best-selling The No Asshole Rule (2007). Bob kindly declared the WBI-Zogby US Workplace Bullying Survey "one of the most important, and most rigorous, studies on this problem."
Joel Neuman, PhD
SUNY, New Palz, New York
When WBI began in 1998, Joel was one of only two academics studying workplace bullying. In 2000, he generously gave a keynote address at the U.S. Workplace Bullying Conference. He and L. Keashly have teamed to create an intervention for the VA to reduce conflict and aggression.
Loraleigh Keashly, PhD
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
When WBI began in 1998, Loraleigh was one of only two academics studying workplace bullying. In 2000, she generously gave a keynote address at the U.S. Workplace Bullying Conference. Her year 2000 study was the best estimate of bullying prevalence in the US prior to the 2007 WBI-Zogby survey. She is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communications.
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Fellow Crusaders for Social Justice in the Workplace
Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness is a non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. Our goal is to bring together workers, employers, advocates, and policy makers to achieve fairness in the workplace. We are allied with the National Employment Lawyers Association, the nation's largest association of advocates for employee rights.
Former And Current Employees (FACE) Intel
Ken Hamidi's heroic and brutally frank website depicting horrific working conditions for Intel Corp. employees. The cover for the darling of Silicon Valley is blown off here. Hamidi's defiant gestures have enraged Intel as they tried to bury him with lawsuits. Harvard Law uses his case as an example of threatened free speech in cyberspace. Hamidi won his case twice in California Supreme Court in 2003 and again in 2004!
Consumer Justice Group -- Workers' Rights Division
The Consumer Justice Group is dedicated to raising worker's awareness of their legal rights. The goal is to help provide information, including legal advice, to more workers around the country. CJG -- Workers' Rights: A newsletter discussing overtime law, workers' compensation, workplace injury & more. DO NOT FILE a WC complaint without consulting these legal professionals! CJG offers an abundance of information for consumers on matters from workers' rights to stock fraud.
Peace At Work
Johnny Lee's website about workplace violence, featuring an awareness of the linkage between domestic violence and bullying at work.
The Expendables
Why nice, intelligent people finish last in the workplace...and what some of them are doing to fight back.
KickBully.com
Verbal ammunition for fighting back
One Flew Over the Post Office
Women's network to stop crimes against women in the U.S. Post Office. Speaking out against workplace rape and hand slap "punishment" for the rapist.
Freelancers Union
Is a national nonprofit membership organization that promotes the interests of people who work independently (approx. 30% of the American workforce). The org. provides a voice for freelancers, indepedent contractors, temps, part-timers, contingent workers, and people working from home. WT is a way for independent workers to get affordable health and insurance benefits.
"Rankism"
Robert Fuller's website dedicated to raising awareness of rankism and its costs to society. Rankism is the broadest form of abuse of the weak by the strong. A broader philosophical approach worth exploring.
Privacy Rights
The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego based nonprofit consumer group provides tips about protecting ourselves from the nonstop momentum of the Information Age that tramples many rights we've come to expect as fast as computers can network with each other, exchanging massive databases. The PRC also has contributed to Employee University and their book is available through the Bookstore.
Government Accountability Project
A resource for Whistleblowers, GAP supports those who turn in lawbreakers both in government and private sector. Learn about the risks before you blow the whistle, if you can wait. Go to GAP's links to find places for additional support.
National Employment Lawyers Association
Great Employment Law links, including access to court decisions, case descriptions, Affirmative Action legislative updates in the section open to the public.
Supreme Court Calendar & Archives of Rulings
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Research or Expose Your Bully
Reference checking firms that call your bully to see what is said about you before or after you are gone.
Allison & Taylor, 800-651-2470
Est. 1984 as a firm that only did reference checking on your behalf to gather the story about you the bully is likely to give the next employer. We have received no complaints about delays or poor service. We understand why the firm has expanded to conduct background checks on you, too. It's a much bigger market. We hope they retain the integrity of the checking up on bad bosses.
Documented Reference Check, 800-742-3316
The original reference checker for employees and therefore mentioned in the book, The Bully At Work.We have received several complaints about delays and poor service. Try both to see which company performs better, if you can afford it.
E-Boss Watch
A website that allows you to name your bully. Not affiliated with the Workplace Bullying Institute. Back to Top
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