Archive for the ‘Bullying Tutorials’ Category
Guest blog: Bully tactics
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The stories posted here at the WBI site, along with the toxic environment I have to work in, lead me to believe that workplace bullying is an epidemic in this country. It begins at school age and never stops. Government intervention may be the only hope for a solution. (Libel, slander, descrimination, harassment, false imprisonment … )
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Tags: bully tactics
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HR: Friend or Foe of Workplace Bullying Targets?
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Another blast at HR, the “profession” from Gary Namie, the director here at WBI. This time evidence supporting the accusations is provided. A rebuttal from a well-intentioned HR practitioner follows. The debate about HR’s role in bullying cases — I say they hurt, she says they help — inspired us to create a new WBI forum to allow real people to catalog their real HR stories. Let’s gather some anecdotal facts. Soon, there will be new national data from the 2010 WBI-Zogby survey about HR. And the Drs. Namie are writing the book for employers who want to stop workplace bullying (set for spring 2011 release). We want to include selected accounts posted at the new website/forum. It’s called HR Failed Me, but positive stories are welcome. Just be truthful. Visit HR Failed Me and share your experience with HR.
While here, take a second to take the Instant Poll on HR’s efficacy.
The arguments in both sides of the debate follow.
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction, WBI Legislative Campaign | 14 Comments »
Why to avoid Workers Comp
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
We have long advised employees injured by health-harming bullying to avoid Workers Compensation claims. Your friends (not) at HR route you to WC or unpaid FMLA. But you have options. Have your physician qualify you for short-term disability. While off work, make decisions guided by your health status and prospects for healing.
A 2008 book, Depraved Indifference: The Workers Compensation System by Patrice Woeppel, is described in an interview with the author by Frank Smecker. If you have any doubts that the system was created by and for employers to stave off lawsuits, read the interview and book. The system pays only 27% on average of the illness and injury costs for workers. Corrupt employer-only physicians never acknowledge injuries caused by employers. Having a separate occupational health insurance system locks out work-related illness and injury from the regular health care insurance system. The book author also posits several recommendations for changing the corrupt WC system.
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | 5 Comments »
Podcast 17: Top-Down/Shut-Up Workplaces Breed Disaster
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Who says workplace culture doesn’t matter? When oil platform engineers tried to warn BP about potential risks of rushing installation of the well without adequate safety checks, they were told to shut up. The environment and the entire Gulf economy pay. In bullying-prone workplaces, the rules always dictate command and control from the top, no use even raising concerns, you’ll have your head handed to you. Targets pay with their health, jobs, careers. A Gary Namie podcast.
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Tags: top down, toxic, whistleblower, workplace culture
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WBI's position on mediation and workplace bullying
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Bullying is rarely just conflict. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on an American Arbitration Association (AAA) initiative to address workplace bullying in the academe. The WBI position is clear. When there is a power/status difference, mediation is the wrong tool. We do not mediate domestic violence cases. When there is clearly a perpetrator-initiator and an involuntary target, mediation further compromises the compromised. When the organization believes the target finally attempting to fight back makes him or her equally wrong, mediation doesn’t work.
Tags: American Arbitration Association, Chronicle of Higher Education, mediation
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | 5 Comments »
A little "good" bullying?
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Hateful, despicable people often act as apologists for bullies. For instance, corporate attorney Jeff Tannenbaum from Littler Mendelson long ago told the SF Business Times that some people deserve a “little good bullying.” He probably meant to use fear to motivate. That was a foolish thing to say. I ran across a new essay by Anthony Tiatorio (read the May 25 article) in which he thoughtfully represented the stop-student-bullying initiatives as failed. He quoted our WBI national survey prevalence and understood some of the less well-known findings. His conclusion: “the message is unmistakable, ‘get used to it;’ it’s a way of life in this culture.”
Tags: Anthony Tiatoro, bullying, culture, greek mythology, Procrustes
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Guest blog: Bullying and Nurses
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Destructive Workplace Behaviors and Turnover in Nursing by Cheryl Painter, MBA/HCM/NHCE, BSHA, PhD candidate, published in the Arizona Healthcare Executives, Spring 2009.
Destructive workplace behaviors contribute to the inability to retain nurses in the healthcare environment because of the stress associated with these behaviors. Briles (2003) defined the problem of destructive workplace behavior as “working manners, habits, and styles that can directly and negatively affect the bottom line of a unit, department, and the entire organization” (Red Ink Behavior section 2).
Tags: bullying, Cheryl Painter, destructive workplace behaviors, nursing
Posted in Bullying Tutorials | 26 Comments »
New YouTube Videos Posted
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
We’ve uploaded four new videos on YouTube.
Check out Dr. Gary Namie in a variety of media appearances on the Workplace Bullying Institute’s YouTube Channel
Our YouTube videos provide education on the phenomenon of Workplace Bullying, guidance for targets of bullying, and suggestions for employers to create safe, healthy working environments.
Tags: advice, Gary Namie, help for targets, Media, Namie, TV, workplace bullying
Posted in Announcements, Bullying Tutorials, Bullying in the News, Media | 4 Comments »
TV news boss creates worker snitch plan
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
In all of our talks, workshops and training sessions, we discuss the variety of tactics bullies use to control the workgroup. When the bully is a boss (as he/she is in 72% of cases), divide and conquer tactics pit worker against worker, destroying morale but protecting the bully’s status as dominator. Sometimes the tactic is subtle and artfully applied. Recent news from Orlando sets a new standard for unmitigated gall.
WKMG-TV news director Steve Hyvonen called for a Saturday meeting of the 60 employees to discuss “what makes bad TV news.” But he also instructed staff to write the names of three co-workers who are “often a negative influence on what we do” and who have “a poor work ethic.” He called them “battery drainers.” How about voting for the boss, unanimously? (more…)
Tags: bad boss, Steve Hyvenon, WKMG-TV
Posted in Bullying Tutorials | 1 Comment »
Abuse in the medical workplace: Fact vs. myth
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Workplace Abuse in the Medical Workplace: Fact vs. Myth
By Denise Halverson for Utah Nurse
A physician demands that a prescription be filled despite proof that it has been prescribed from faulty information; an intimidated ER nurse doesn’t dare speak up when a life-threatening condition is overlooked; a surgical team stands knowingly, yet silently by as a surgeon makes a life-threatening error ; despite the plea of a mother, nursing staff refuse to challenge the doctor’s written order resulting in the senseless death of a toddler; a senior nurse refuses to assist a junior nurse as a critically-injured patient slips away. What is the common factor in these, and other similar and actual situations? Workplace bullying. In medical environments, personnel often couch it in more benign language: intimidating and disruptive behavior.
Tags: bullying in medical, Halverson, healthcare workplace abuse, Utah
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