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WBI Survey to complete — discovering workplace bullying
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Please complete the newest WBI 6-question survey. Share how you discovered/came upon/”stumbled upon” workplace bullying. Thank you. Watch this space for results. See results of our other 37 studies completed to date with downloadable reports.
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Workplace Bullying University® August sessions
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Since 2008, Drs. Gary and Ruth Namie have offered the only training for professionals in the U.S. about all aspects of Workplace Bullying — the Workplace Bullying University®. Participants range from counselors, higher education professionals, attorneys, physicians, nurses, HR, independent trainers, and corporate OD practitioners to individuals starting new careers eager to specialize in the topic. The intensive sessions focus on the research foundation for the emergent field. University is akin to a graduate-level seminar. Though the schooling is tough and take-home materials voluminous, the interactions and in-depth discussions are the most memorable part of the experience. Sessions are held in Bellingham, Washington, home of WBI.
Only a few seats remain for the Aug 2-3-4 (1 seat) and Aug 16-17-18 (2 seats) sessions. Call to register 360-656-6630 or visit the University website.
As a May University graduate described our program:
Definitely the most value-added program to organizational development I have attended in my 30-plus years in the business.
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WBI Podcast 34: Felix Nater
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Here is a nice piece of older audio from a radio program featuring Dr. Namie. His guest is Felix Nater, a former Postal Inspector, whose experiences led him to investigate workplace homicides and to prosecute offenders. Prevention was often lacking. Now consultant Nater makes violence prevention a key part of the business process for clients. He developed the Violence Interdiction Model which he shares with the Work Doctor audience.
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Tags: Felix Nater, Gary Namie, Podcasts, Post Office, Work Doctor, workplace bullying, workplace violence
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New WBI Survey
Monday, June 17th, 2013
Please take some time to complete the newest WBI Survey. How did you first discover workplace bullying?
Tags: research, survey, workplace bullying
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Let’s Talk with Kalola: Bullying is affecting my health
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Dear Kalola,
When I started with this company as a Clerical Assistant for the data team I was happy outgoing and loved going to work. When I made a change because of a financially crisis at home, I was not doing good so I transferred to a FT position. Once I moved into this position I was quickly moved to another position without even being asked. I had no proper training and my manager didn't know much either so it made this job stressful because you had to meet quotas and they based your performance on that. I began to feel really stressed.
For my one year anniversary my manager threw the packet on my desk and walked away in front of my coworkers. I felt humiliated, embarrassed and ashamed. After 3 months of this stress I began to feel sick nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, losing excessive weight, and migraines. I was diagnosed with 2 bleeding ulcers, a gastric ulcer and a condition called gastro paresis which its a condition where the stomach does not empty. After 4 months of hostile environment I was diagnosed with anxiety, depression and high blood pressure.
I wrote to HR and I was ignored. I filled out FMLA, I wrote to the owner 3 times but that made matters worse. I am still being written up and ignored. They have succeeded in taking my chance in education, my school flex schedule was taken away, written up with no chance to transfer out of this hostile deptartment. Everyday I am being harassed, abused and humiliated, provoked...I am at the end of my rope sometimes I feel like Im losing my mind...I cant quit because financially I'm suffering with all the hospital bills, doctor bills, procedures and medication.
Because of being absent because of my illness I am not getting paid, my bills have accumulated and I have no money to buy my Rx one at $30 the other three $15 each. My health has deteriorated drastically from someone so full of life, happy and outgoing to a depressed, not wanting to go out, insomnia, worries of what will happen if I lose my job, hard time sleeping and shutting down my brain so I don't think about it. Everyday going to work my body begins to shake, my chest gets tight, I have a hard time breathing, the nausea starts then the vomiting, diarrhea, and migraines begin again I stay feeling anxious and all I do is cry uncontrollably. On the weekends I am fine come Sunday night and everything starts again.
Florida Worker
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Catholic school fires teacher stalked by abusive ex
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
A story of double jeopardy — a victim of domestic violence is treated like a criminal by her employer. Carie Charlesworth, 2nd grade teacher at Holy Trinity school in San Diego, warned her principal that her ex-spouse was on the grounds despite a court restraining order. The school went into lockdown. The abusive man subsequently went to prison for other crimes. Carie was fired and prevented from working for any other school in the diocese (district). Read the termination letter. Sadly, her four children enrolled at the school were also tossed out.
Simply put, because the violent man broke his restraining order, teacher and mother Carie was punished.
Video from NBC-TV-7, San Diego
A 2011 study by Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center Project SURVIVE found that nearly 40% of survivors in California reported being fired or fearing termination due to domestic violence.
The full story at the TV station website.
Tags: Carie Charlesworth, domestic violence, Holy Trinity, teacher fired, workplace bullying
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WBI Study: Protecting workplace bullies
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
PROTECTING WORKPLACE BULLIES
WBI 2013-F Instant Poll
At WBI, we have documented how bullies rarely face personal negative consequences for their misconduct. Too often, complaints about bullying are discounted, dismissed or completely ignored. This indifferent response by the organization implicitly rewards the bullying. The uncoupling of bullying from negative sanctions outrages bullied targets. It is the injustice that infuriates targets.
WBI national American studies show that the vast majority of perpetrators (72%) are bosses. Organizational support for managers trumps support for non-supervisory workers.
In this survey, we sought to clarify the sources of support, or protection, for bullies. Protective support prevents punishment for bullies and blocks accountability. Of course over time, protecting bullies sustains a workplace culture that is bullying-prone and unsafe for prospective targets. Protection ensures that bullying continues with impunity.
Tags: bullying with impunity, executive sponsor, Gary Namie, protecting bullies, WBI research, workplace bullying
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New WBI survey to complete
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
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Workplace Bullying Targets to Employers: I Won’t Beg
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
[The unspoken, unwritten message employers need to hear.]
I love my job. I apply my education and experience to the task that keeps me stimulated and for which I can still get excited.
When I took this job I didn’t agree to be abused in exchange for a paycheck. I didn’t ask if you had abusers on the payroll and if you were sending me to work with them. I assumed the goodness in everyone as a starting point. I know now I should not have.
It was you who assigned me to a work group managed by a person you chose. I assumed you had managers trained in the interpersonal art of managing people. Evidently you think that is too expensive and rely instead on on-the-job training. All of us pay for that shortsighted decision.
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Pima County Arizona takes a stand against workplace bullying
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
On April 16, 2013 the Pima County (AZ) Board of Supervisors approved a new policy to prevent, identify and address workplace bullying. Pima, which includes the city of Tuscon, joins the growing list of U.S. counties (see Fulton County, Georgia) to adopt such measures. You can read the entire policy here.
Bullying defined:
Workplace bullying is intentional behavior intended to create an abusive work environment for an employee or employees. Bullying behavior is behavior in the workplace that a reasonable person would find hostile, offensive, and not obviously related to an employer’s legitimate business interests.
Features of the Policy:
• It can come from any direction — manager, co-worker, subordinate, appointing authority, elected official, vendor, contractor or member of the public.
• Witnesses, not just direct targets of bullying, may complain
• The list of illustrative examples is long, but nicely categorized as follows, bullying: in general, by supervisor, by coworkers, by sabotage and by shunning.
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