Posts Tagged ‘2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey’
Hampton Roads Biz Journal: Preventable violence threatens bottom line
Friday, November 9th, 2012
From The Hampton Roads Business Journal, Nov. 2, 2012
The Kaufman & Canoles’ 29th annual Employment Law Update will be held on Nov. 15 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Call 624-3222 to register.
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The Workplace Bullying Institute introduced the British term, workplace bullying, to Americans in 1997 and has since refined it to mean abusive conduct. It is now defined as repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more persons manifested as verbal abuse, work sabotage or behaviors perceived as threatening, intimidating or humiliating. It is a non-physical form of workplace violence.
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Entrepreneur: Workplace Bullying | Telltale Signs You Have a Workplace Bully
Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Entrepreneur Daily Dose Blog
Telltale Signs You Have a Workplace Bully
by Gwen Moran
Workplace bullying affects 35 percent of employees, according to a 2010 survey by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI), a Bellingham, Wash.-based nonprofit organization. Gary Namie co-founded WBI with his wife, Ruth, after her first-hand experience with bullying. In an interview, he shared his best advice to entrepreneurs for managing this nefarious problem. What follows are edited excerpts of the interview.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, Bully at Work, Bully-Free Workplace, Gary Namie, Work Doctor
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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
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New US workplace bullying prevalence study
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
CareerBuilder.com made a major contribution to public awareness of workplace bullying with the April 20, 2011 release of results from its large-scale survey on the prevalence of bullying at work. Harris Interactive conducted the online survey of private-sector employed Americans.
WBI thanks CareerBuilder for conducting the survey. Our results and CB’s converge a great deal. Overall, the CB survey found a bullying prevalence of 27% (34% women, 22% men). WBI found 35% in 2010. Though the definition of bullying used in the CB survey is not yet available, bullying is inarguably a troublesome epidemic that plagues the American workplace!
Tags: 2007 WBI US Workplace Bullying Survey, 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, bullying prevalence, careerbuilder.com, Harris interactive, workplace bullying
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Bullying at work: A national epidemic?
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
by Laurie Tarkan, BNET, March 23, 2011
A good article citing WBI’s 2010 U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey and the Healthy Workplace Campaign pushing for enactment of the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill. Read the story.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, BNET, epidemic, Healthy Workplace Bill, Laurie Tarkan, workplace bullying
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Employer Engagement in preventing/correcting workplace bullying: 2 Views
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
How engaged is your employer? It depends on whether you are asking the American public or people with direct experience being bullied.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, employer engagement, Gary Namie, workplace bullying, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Office bullies target the educated
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
By Lemery Reyes, Newsdesk.org, Oct. 19, 2010
Bullies aren’t just kids in the playground anymore — they are also adults in the workplace, or lurking online.
As anti-bullying advocates try to push through new legislation at the state level, several new studies have found that bullying affects different people in different ways. In the workplace, bullying is more likely to target educated employees, while victims of online abuse are more likely to feel depressed and isolated.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, David Yamada, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, newsdesk
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Education & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Friday, September 17th, 2010
There are many myths and misconceptions about workplace bullying advanced by disbelievers and opponents. One portrayal is that bullying affects only the uneducated, unskilled workers.
The WBI 2003 online survey reported that the five top reasons individuals are targeted for bullying, in rank order, were: (1) refusal to be subservient (being independent), (2) being more technically skilled than the bully, (3) being liked by co-workers/customers (being the go-to expert), (4) being ethical and honest, and (5) not being sufficiently political. Thus, people are targeted for their strengths and the threats they pose to the defensive, narcissistic perpetrator.
In the scientific (nationally representative) 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, respondents could check whether they had a college degree (or beyond) or whether they did not have a degree. That allows us to determine if the reported experiences with bullying differed according to education level.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, education, workplace bullying, Workplace Bullying Institute
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Age & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Friday, September 17th, 2010
In the 13 years we have been helping and coaching targets of workplace bullying, there has been a noticeable over-representation of older workers, age 50 and up, in the group seeking help. It makes sense. Employers want to drive out the more experienced, typically higher paid, workers. Though discrimination based on age is technically illegal, illegalities do not frighten employers. Their attitude is “so, sue us.” Unemployed workers don’t have the money to launch a legal battle.
Our anecdotal experiences, however, may not accurately reflect the national experience. According to the 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, it appears that the 30-49 year age group is the most vulnerable. This finding reflects another major difference between the target audience for WBI and the broader population of adult Americans. Here are the results.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, age, workplace bullying
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Recession & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Friday, September 17th, 2010
It’s a no-brainer prediction that the economic recession escalates bullying at work. Be careful it may not be as clearcut as it appears. It seems that once again experience with bullying is required. From an online WBI summer 2009 survey of 454 respondents, 28% reported an escalation. In that sample, 97% said that they were now or were previously bullied. Thus, this was a snapshot of the world through the lens of bullied individuals, but not representative of the broader population (the other 65% who have not been bullied).
By contrast, the respondents to the 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey (n=4,210) reported a much different story about the recession’s impact. The large scientific (nationally representative) sample included lots of people who either deny bullying’s existence or have a limited experience with it. Here is the comparison of results from the two studies.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, recession
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