Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
HR, "Extracting" Employees
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
From “Better Off Ted” (ABC-TV): HR’s extraction process. Enjoy.
“We want to relate to each other and to our families as good, moral, just people who do the right thing and then we go out to the corporate culture and it’s this horrible dog-eat-dog, greed, anything-goes culture.” Victor Fresco, show creator
Tags: Better Off Ted, extraction, HR
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Florida Matters radio
Monday, June 29th, 2009
The Impact of Bullying
Carson Cooper, Host
Show: Florida Matters
WUSF-FM, Tampa, FL
June 26, 2009
The majority of the broadcast focused on school-age bullying. However, at the end Carson interviewed Dr. Gary Namie, WBI.
You can listen to only the Workplace Bullying segment here.
Or listen to the entire June 26 broadcast at the station’s website.
Tags: Florida Matters, WUSF
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Video: Sid Citrus, Bully-Asshole Boss
Monday, June 15th, 2009
ATTENTION ASSHOLE BOSSES!
Sid Citrus launches campaign to be crowned your King.
Sid Citrus: Asshole Boss can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/sidcitrus
and at www.SidCitrus.Com.
Orange Rebel Productions announces the launch of a new comedy web series, Sid Citrus: Asshole Boss, in partnership with inaugural corporate sponsor, The People Group.
(more…)
Tags: asshole, bully, Kevin Kennemer, Orange Rebel Productions, Sid Citrus, The People Group
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction, Media | 3 Comments »
Ferber on Bullying: Getting It Right
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
The NY Times has twice now featured our WBI-Zogby statisics in two articles (Jan. and May 10, not so ironically Mother’s Day). From that sprang TV and radio reports and lots o’ blogosphere chatter.
The fact is that we ran a large national study looking at lots of aspects of bullying at work. The trouble is that the media love the catfight (woman-on-woman) angle. Or shall I say, the editors, love it. Most reporters get the big picture. Fact: most of the bullying is done by men.
One blogger sorted through the B.S. and got it right — Abby L. Ferber — at the Huffington Post. She sees that most bullying is about abuse of authority and power. Bullying is certainly complex and comes in a variety of forms, but common to all types is the perpetrator’s CONTROL over another human being. The perp’s insatiable need, made possible by either unknowing or corrupt employers, and the harm it causes the targeted person’s health, sense of identity, livelihood, family and career.
So in the noisy, error-prone, cranky and eccentric world of bloggers, Ferber got it right! WBI commends and thanks you.
GN
What do you readers think? Feel free to comment below.
Tags: Ferber, Huffington Post
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Workplace Bullying on the Rise in Weakened Economy
Monday, May 11th, 2009
May 11, 2009
Workplace Bullying on the Rise in Weakened Economy
WJLA-TV, Washington, DC
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Christian Bale: Workplace Bully
Monday, May 4th, 2009
WARNING: Video contains explicit language.
By Liz Wolgemuth US News and World Report: The Inside Job February 3, 2009
A September 2007 Zogby survey found 37 percent of Americans workers have been bullied at work. The precise definition of a bully is tough to come by, but Washington state’s Department of Labor says it’s behavior that “intimidates, degrades, offends, or humiliates a worker, often in front of others. Bullying behavior creates feelings of defenselessness in the target and undermines an individualÕs right to dignity at work.”
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Video: 2004 WA Legislature on Workplace Bullying
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
The 1st Workplace Bullying Work Session
WA State House Commerce & Labor Committee
December, 2004
Thanks to the leadership of Committee Chair, House Rep. Steve Conway, the legislature was introduced to the phenomenon of workplace bullying prior to the introduction of the first bill in 2005.
Presenters included Drs. Gary and Ruth Namie (WBI) and Bonnie McAllister
Tags: Commerce & Labor Committee, Steve Conway, WA legislature
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Video: 2008 WA Legislature Bill Hearing
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
WA State House Commerce & Labor Committee Hearing
Bill HB 2142
Feb. 1, 2008
The bill passed the committee but languished in the Appropriations Committee. Several state agencies predicted economic doom if the WBI bill would pass even though there is no employer mandate or state involvement with enforcement of a law. You can read the details at the Washington State page of the WBI-Legislative Campaign website.
The Allentown Productions documentary crew filmed the hearing and included some testimony in their 2009 film “Murder By Proxy“
Tags: Commerce & Labor Committee, HB2142, Steve Conway, WA legislature
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Video: 2007 OR Legislature Bill Hearing
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
On April 18, 2007, the Senate Rules Committee heard testimony about the workplace bullying bill, SB 1035. No committee vote was ever taken.
Tags: OR, SB1035
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Gary Namie TV Appearances Montage
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Tags: Gary Namie, TV
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