Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Spouses give most support to bullied workers
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Results from the Workplace Bullying Institute’s last instant online poll of bullied individuals (n=528 respondents) are in. Bullying isolates bullied individuals, sometimes deliberately (“icing out”, ordered exclusion), sometimes inadvertently when coworkers fear for their own on-job status and stay away from their former friends. (See the WBI extensive survey about what coworkers actually do in bullying situations.)
In the Instant Poll, we asked:
For targets of workplace bullying: who is your greatest supporter?
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 11 Comments »
Bullied targets support ‘Occupy’
Friday, November 11th, 2011
WBI recently ran an Instant Poll (n=230) asking if respondents “support the Occupy movement that is expressing outrage over economic inequity?” 74% said Yes. We broke support and disagreement into sub-categories. See the results below.
Tags: bullied targets, occupy, Workplace Bullying Institute
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science, Social Justice | 5 Comments »
Britain matches American prevalence of workplace bullying
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
The just-released British Workplace Behaviour Survey explored “ill treatment.” Two of the three categories of negative behavior explored in the study add to comprise what we call workplace bullying. The Survey findings can be extrapolated to the entire British workforce because it was a scientific sample. The bullying prevalence was 33%, and respondents were asked to consider mistreatment experienced in the last 2 years. American prevalence was estimated by the 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, also nationally representative and scientific. From that study we know that 9% of respondents said they were currently bullied and 26% reported having been bullied, but not currently — summing to 35%.
Read the summary of the British study | Read the 2010 WBI U.S. Survey results
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, British Workplace Behaviour Survey, workplace bullying prevalence
Posted in Announcements, Science | 1 Comment »
New national British Survey sheds light on workplace bullying and violence
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The British Workplace Behaviour Survey released this week at the Festival of Social Sciences in London is a 21-question instrument designed to cover a 2-year period in respondents’ lives. It was administered to 3,979 employees in home, face-to-face interviews. The representative (and thus scientific) survey explored prevalence of a wide range of behaviors that comprise “ill treatment” in the UK workplace. This is a major study with several significant findings, including conclusions about why employers do so little to eliminate it.
“Ill treatment” included: unreasonable treatment (reported by 47%), denigration and disrespect (40%), 33% experienced both unreasonable treatment and denigration and disrespect, and 6% experienced violence.
Tags: British Workplace Behaviour Survey, disrespect, Duncan Lewis, ill treatment, unreasonable treatment, workplace bullying, workplace violence
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction, Science | 1 Comment »
Targets of workplace bullying define “victory”
Friday, October 28th, 2011
The recent WBI Instant Poll, completed by 317 respondents, asked how bullied individuals defined “victory” in their personal campaign against workplace bullying. This would mean winning. In a broader sense, it is the justice they seek, perhaps a restoration of the fairness denied them during their bullying months or years.
Tags: online poll, targets define victory
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 10 Comments »
WBI Podcast 21: Explaining the reluctance to help those less fortunate
Friday, October 28th, 2011
Podcast 21:
Our Reluctance to Help the Less Fortunate Than Ourselves
Two authors of an academic paper wrote an article for non-scientists in Scientific American called the Last Place Aversion Paradox: The surprising psychology of the Occupy Wall Street protests. The authors note that since the recession began in 2008, public support for economic redistribution (raising the minimum wage) has fallen.
I describe the paradox in this Podcast.
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Tags: last place aversion, occupy, selfishness
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Podcasts, Science | 2 Comments »
37% of adults are bullied at work, not 70% — setting the record straight
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
Fact checking is an antiquated function in the modern newsroom. Despite a ubiquitous tether to vast troves of information on the internet, media outlets seem to have trouble using it to confirm claims, however aberrant they sound. The national prevalence of workplace bullying is one such distorted statistic.
This summer USA Today columnist, Anita Bruzzese, reported a false claim that a new survey found “up to 70 percent of working adults say they’ve been bullied at some point in their working lives,” citing Civility Partners LLC as the source. The same 70% prevalence rate was repeated by a Fort Worth, Texas TV station on Sept. 26. Repeating a mistake does not make it right.
Here are the facts behind the exaggerated prevalence rate.
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Tags: 2007 WBI US Workplace Bullying Survey, Anita Bruzesse, CBS-11 DFW, Civility Partners, USA Today, workplace bullying prevalence
Posted in Science | 1 Comment »
Anti-science Americans baffle EU climate chief
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
When asked to serve as expert witness in lawsuits, I rely heavily on the science of workplace bullying to demonstrate the reality of the harm it causes. Science trumps the opinions of the bully and her/his apologists. However, we are embarrassingly becoming a nation of science illiterates, even boasting about our stupidity.
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Tags: anti-science, climate change, Connie Hedegaard, EU
Posted in Science, Social Justice | 3 Comments »
Work, Stress & Health conference this week
Monday, May 16th, 2011
The biannual conference is in Orlando, Florida May 19-22. Hosted by the American Psychological Association, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Society of Occupational Health Psychology. We have been participants since 1998. Here are some specific workplace bullying-related presentations.
Tags: APA, NIOSH, SOHP, Work stress health conf
Posted in Announcements, Science | 4 Comments »
2012 Workplace Bullying Conference
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The Int’l Assoc on Workplace Bullying & Harassment holds its biannual conference in Copenhagen June 13-15, 2012. The call for papers opens soon. The deadline will be Sept. 1, 2011 for full papers and Jan. 12, 2012 for abstracts for paper and poster presentations and symposia. The Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Copenhagen is the host institution. The Conference website is here. Many details have yet to be finalized at this date. WBI will keep you posted. Dr. Gary Namie is the N. American rep on the IAWBH Board of Directors. Here is a preliminary announcement flyer and a photo preview of magnificent Copenhagen.
Tags: Copenhagen, IAWBH
Posted in Announcements, Conferences, Events, Science | 7 Comments »
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