Posts Tagged ‘David Yamada’
Yamada: Workplace Bullying Is Bad For Business
Monday, January 9th, 2012
By David Yamada, Worcester Business Journal, Jan. 9, 2012
Workplace bullying is the deliberate, health-endangering mistreatment of an employee by a supervisor or co-workers. It may come in the form of the yelling and screaming boss who regularly inflicts high-decibel tirades upon a subordinate. It may come in the form of workers who deliberately sabotage the reputation of a co-worker by spreading lies and rumors about his or her performance and character.
Tags: David Yamada
Posted in Bullying in the News, Bullying Tutorials, Legislative Campaign | 8 Comments »
Why the U.S. needs, and we are advocates for, the Healthy Workplace Bill
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
As of Nov. 22, 2011, there are 12 states carrying 18 versions of our anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill sponsored by hundreds of state legislators of both political parties. You can see for yourself by visiting the website for the national Healthy Workplace Campaign. Learn about the bill here. We also address criticisms of the HWB.
Tags: Carrie Clark, David Yamada, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, Ruth Namie, workplace bullying defined
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Legislative Campaign, Social Justice | 9 Comments »
David Yamada: Will this stop adult bullies?
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
BOSTON
MICHAEL NAUGHTON/METRO July 20, 2011
With the suicides of two bullied high school students here in Massachusetts, the focus on anti-bullying efforts thus far has been on children.
But a group of advocates have been trying to convince state legislators to pass a bill that would give a legal avenue for victims of workplace bullies.
Tags: Boston, David Yamada, Heathy Workplace Bill, metro, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News | 4 Comments »
Developing Law on Workplace Abuse
Friday, January 21st, 2011
Office Bully Takes One on the Nose: Developing Law on Workplace Abuse
by Jason Habinsky and Christine M. Fitzgerald, New York Law Journal, Jan. 21, 2011
Quotes from the article we appreciate most:
“with bullying becoming front-page news across the nation, it is just a matter of time before the law adapts”
and
“it seems inevitable that some form of the HWB will become law, whether in New York or elsewhere, and that once the first state adopts an anti-bullying statute others will shortly follow.”
Read the entire original article, including case law examples illustrating how bullying is NOT covered by existing laws! We’ve always told employers this is true, but employers describe themselves as victims. They want no regulations and no legal liability no matter how severely they mistreat workers. Our Healthy Workplace Bill threatens only abusive employers. Good employers have nothing to fear.
Tags: Christine M. Fitzgerald, David Yamada, Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, HWB, Jason Habinsky, New York Law Journal
Posted in Bullying in the News, Legislative Campaign | 6 Comments »
The developing human brain and bullying
Monday, November 29th, 2010
At WBI we use physical sciences to complement the “softer” social science research. It is useful to convince all opponents (the courts when involved in legal cases, business lobbyists fighting our anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill, and executives who believe they would be sissies if they stopped bullying in their organizations) that there is a physiological basis to the injuries suffered by bullied targets. A tip of the hat to David Yamada for catching the Boston Globe science writer’s recent coverage of relevant research. Emily Anthes wrote about the impact of being bullied as a child on the developing human brain. Dr. Gabor Maté, appearing on Democracy Now! Nov. 24 spoke about how the bully’s brain may develop in abnormal ways.
Tags: brain development, bullying, Daniel Peterson, David Yamada, Elizabeth Blackburn, Emily Anthes, Gabor Mate, Martin Teicher, neuroscience, Robert Hare, Robert Sapolsky, Tracy Vaillancourt, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 5 Comments »
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
Posted in Bullying in the News, Legislative Campaign, Science | 6 Comments »
HWB author Yamada on MSNBC
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
David Yamada, Suffolk Univ. Law Professor and author of the anti-bullying legislation for the U.S. — the Healthy Workplace Bill, appeared on MSNBC at 12:50 pm July 23. He distinguished clearly routine rudeness from malicious bullying that carries health-harming consequences. You can download Prof. Yamada’s publications from a link in the WBI Research Library and visit his blog for the New Workplace Institute.
Note the correct spelling of his name Yamada, not Yamata.
Tags: David Yamada, Healthy Workplace Bill, MSNBC, New York Senate
Posted in Bullying in the News, Legislative Campaign, Media | 3 Comments »
Workplace Bullying Academics Meet-Up in Cardiff
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The premier academic workplace bullying group ended its biannual 3-day conference in sunny (as rare as that was) Cardiff, Wales in the UK with 230 attendees from 30 countries. The conference was hosted by Prof. Duncan Lewis from the University of Glamorgan who treated us visitors to some real Welsh culture, humor and warmth. It was a unique gathering of like-minded people, mostly academics working in universities and a growing number of practitioners — therapists and consultants. WBI was there.
Tags: Cardiff, Charlotte Rayner, David Yamada, Gabriele Murry, HR, IAWBH, Rachael Maskell, UNISON, Unite, WBI, workplace bullying conference
Posted in Announcements, Conferences | Post a Comment »
Workplace Bullying Bills Alive in the States
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Despite overwhelming state budget crises, the legislative campaign to enact anti-bullying laws for American workplaces rolls on. During this 2010 season, against all odds, the Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB), in various forms, is alive in nine states: Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Oklahoma, Kansas and Utah.
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Tags: anti-bullying law, CT, David Yamada, Healthy Workplace Bill, HWB, IL, KS, MA, NJ, NY, OK, UT, VT, WBI
Posted in Legislative Campaign | 10 Comments »
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