Archive for the ‘Bullying in the News’ Category
UK working days lost to bullies
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
18.9 million working days lost every year because of bullies (in the UK)
Allegations against the PM have brought this issue into sharp focus. Gabrielle Fagan investigates just how prevalent it is in the British workplace. Read the article in the Halifax Evening Courier.
Tags: absenteeism, Gabrielle Fagan, UK
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When the boss goes blammo
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
By Zosia Bielski, Globe and Mail, Feb. 23, 2010, Read the original article
A new book accuses British Prime Minister Gordon Brown of throwing temper tantrums. What do you do when the boss is a bully?
Tags: ebosswatch, WAVES
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Brit PM Brown Branded a Bully
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
A forthcoming book branded British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a bully. Bolstering the sensationalistic claim was that the UK National Bullying Helpline director (Christine Pratt) had received between 3 and 60 complaints from Brown’s staff at 10 Downing Street. This triggered an uproar and resignations by patrons (including Prof. Cary Cooper, a recognized workplace bullying researcher), because of the breach in confidentiality by the Hotline. Turns out Hotline advice has resulted referrals for callers to pay for an “investigation” or “consultancy” by Pratt or her husband. The anti-bullying sector has been smeared by Pratt’s tactics. The story prompted CNN International in London to contact Dr. Namie at WBI for comment.
Tags: Cary Cooper, Gordon Brown, Pratt
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Smart Talk radio show
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
WITF-FM (Harrisburg, PA) hosted a 55 min. discussion about Workplace Bullying on Monday Feb. 22 Listen at the archived Smart Talk show website or listen at the WBI Audio page.
Tags: Harrisburg, radio, smart talk, WITF
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The Current, CBC Radio One on Workplace Bullying
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Nov. 30, 2009 Host Anna Maria Tremonti of The Current on CBC Radio One discusses Workplace Bullying with producer Howard Goldenthal. Guests include Dr. Gary Namie, Workplace Bullying Institute, and Ontario MPP Andrea Horwath, sponsor of Bill 29 and future anti-bullying legislation.
Listen to the show segment at the WBI website or the CBC website.
Tags: Anna Maria Tremonti, CBC, Howard Goldenthal, The Current
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Mean Girls at Work
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
by Lori Gottlieb, Women’s Health magazine, Nov. 2009
When I was offered a job as a junior network television executive at age 26, I was beyond excited. I’d get to be creative, meet talented sitcom writers, and best of all, work for a woman I idolized. Amanda,* a TV veteran who worked on some great shows, seemed intimidating from afar—drop-dead gorgeous and extremely successful—but in our interview, she was warm and funny, listened carefully to my ideas, and complimented me on everything from my intellect to my earrings. I showed up my first day thinking, “This will be the Best. Job. Ever.”
Instead, I drove home every night in tears. Amanda stole my ideas, sabotaged my relationships with writers, and “forgot” to tell me about meetings. It was like high school all over again. How could this be happening in a respected company run by professionals? …. Finish reading the original article at the magazine’s site
Read more about woman-on-woman bullying.
Tags: woman-on-woman, Women's Health
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Power and incompetence: The makings of an office bully
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
by Hans Villarica, Medill Wire Service, Oct. 22, 2009
Researchers Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California and Serena Chen of the University of California, Berkeley, found in a series of studies that it is actually the combination of power and incompetence that can result in bad boss behavior. The paper will be published in the November issue of the journal Psychological Science. [FYI, the paper is also described in our article and can be requested from the WBI Research list - A7. ] (more…)
Tags: Adam Galinsky, aggression, bully boss, incompetence, Nathaniel Fast, Ruth McKay, Serena Chen, WBI
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Abuse protection sought for health care workers
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
By Lisa Rosetta, The Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. 22, 2009
Air Med flight nurse Laura Sorensen told her boss in 1993 that she had multiple sclerosis. In hindsight, she believes, she shouldn’t have. (more…)
Tags: Chris Buttars, HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Michelle Swift, Sandstrom
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Laws needed to stop health profession bullying, panel told
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
By James Thalman, Deseret News, Oct. 21, 2009
An epidemic of workplace bullying in hospitals and clinics has gotten so bad it will take legislation to put a stop to it, members of the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Interim committee were told Wednesday.
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Tags: HB 224, Laura Sorensen, Sandstrom, Utah
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WBI on Morning Show
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
WKAN-AM 1320, Kankakee, IL Friday Oct. 2 Morning Show with Bill Yohnka & Ron Jackson.
Tags: WKAN
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