Posts Tagged ‘HR’
Making Moves Toward a Bully-Free Workplace
Monday, July 11th, 2011
HRIQ speaks with Gary Namie, co-author of The Bully Free Workplace. Namie explains what managers need to know about harassment and bullying, and what they can do to stop it.
Interview conducted by Taylor Korsak, Editorial Intern for Human Resources iQ.
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1. Let’s begin our discussion by defining “bullying in the workplace.” How common is it and why should it be a major concern for company leaders?
First, let me be clear that we distinguish bullying from incivility, inappropriateness, rudeness and disrespect. Our definition is “repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more employees directed toward another employee that takes the form of verbal abuse, threats, intimidation, and humiliation, interference with work production or in some combination.” It is a form of abuse. It is recognized by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as a non-physical form of workplace violence. Bullying is not merely an arched eyebrow or raised voice, it is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction launched by one person, with many others soon joining in, to destroy another person’s health, status, identity, job, career, and sometimes even their family.
Tags: Gary Namie, Healthy Workplace Bill, HR, Taylor Kprsak
Posted in Bullying in the News | 4 Comments »
Grand jury finds workplace bullying a problem within county government
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
In Ventura County just south of lovely Santa Barbara, California, a remarkable and unusual thing happened. A grand jury (GJ) was convened to act like consultants contracted to investigate complaints (one of their roles in that county) about workplace bullying by current and former county workers. The GJ as investigator concluded that bullying is a problem and employees deserve protection from it. An investigation conducted by HR might have concluded differently (as it nearly always does). The GJ reported that HR procedures are not trusted. Said the county HR director, John Nicoll, “We do not tolerate employees being mistreated because they’ve filed a complaint.” This directly contradicts facts in the GJ report. Note how outsiders found the truth about bullying.
Tags: grand jury, HR, John Nicoll, Ventura County, Workplace Bullying Institute
Posted in Bullying in the News, Court Rulings, Employer Action/Inaction | 2 Comments »
State WSDOT HR Director fired for being a bully
Friday, December 10th, 2010
Kermit, the HR director for the Washington State Department of Transportation, has reportedly terrorized HR staff for years. He has now been fired for being a bully. And he now chooses to sue the state. Watch the Seattle NBC affiliate KING-TV report that aired on Dec. 9. Great tale of workplace bullying. Everything is accurate except the myth that HR is supposedly the role model for organizational integrity.
Visit the HR Failed Me Forum to tell your HR story.
Tags: HR, human resources, workplace bullying, WSDOT
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 2 Comments »
HR stops Workplace Bullying, if 3% = Success
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
I want to love HR. I know good HR people. One shining example was a 2009 WBI University graduate. She was accustomed to serving at the executive level, as Senior Vice President, in several hospitals. When we met, she had lost two previous jobs simply because she dared to stand up to senior manager bullies. Each time, the CEOs terminated her and kept their buddies. We withhold her name so she can work again.
Another good person is a New York City-based HR professional who blogs and has written a book called the HR Toolkit and works with our NY State group to pass the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill, despite SHRM’s official opposition to the legislation.
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Tags: HR, human resources, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction, Science | 4 Comments »
SHRM opposes anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill
Friday, June 18th, 2010
SHRM, the HR industry advocacy group has gone on record opposing the cessation of abusive conduct in the American workplace. HR boldy stands for abuse and embarrasses the many well-intentioned practitioners who thought their job was “helping people.” Read the details.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, HR, SHRM
Posted in Announcements, Employer Action/Inaction, Legislative Campaign | 2 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 »
Stealing From Children: A Great Injustice Of Workplace Bullying In America's Schools
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Guest essay by Matt Spencer, EdD, veteran school administrator and HR professional, connecting the dots between workplace bullying in the schools and its impact on students.
“The workplace bully in America’s schools is a taker…a robber…a thief. The bully steals the dignity, self-esteem, confidence, joy, happiness, and quality of life of the targeted victim. But when the target is a teacher, a great injustice occurs because the bully robs the students of what they want, need, and deserve…. A great tragedy occurs everyday in America’s schools as thousands of children are robbed by the workplace bully of the RIGHT to be nurtured and taught by such honorable, caring, outstanding educators.”
Tags: bullied teachers impact students, education, HR, teacher bullying, workplace bullying in schools
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction, Social Justice | 7 Comments »
HR, "Extracting" Employees
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
From “Better Off Ted” (ABC-TV): HR’s extraction process. Enjoy.
“We want to relate to each other and to our families as good, moral, just people who do the right thing and then we go out to the corporate culture and it’s this horrible dog-eat-dog, greed, anything-goes culture.” Victor Fresco, show creator
Tags: Better Off Ted, extraction, HR
Posted in Media | 1 Comment »
Trends in HR Anti-Employee Tactics, Part 1
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Fact: HR (“human” resources) is a management support service, low-credibility department in medium-size to large businesses. HR is NOT an advocate for employees. The evidence is compelling that the opposite is true. To see what HR is trying to accomplish, pay attention to the most current trends in training and services created for HR.
Here are 3 examples from May-June, 2009 seminar marketing to HR.
“When Employees Strike Back”
“Banish Bullies and their Lawsuits”
“Make Unions Irrelevant”
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Tags: CEPR, EFCA, HR, Unions, Wal-Mart, WBI-LC
Posted in Employer Action/Inaction | 5 Comments »
VA HR Brands Employee “Seditious”
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Veterans Affairs Human Resources (HR) Fabricates
Outrageous Claims of Employee “Sedition”
Actions Highlight Myth of HR as Employee “Advocates”
Here is a chilling tale that illustrates post-9/11 threats to free speech in the U.S., the power of an overreaching federal employer, and the role played by an obsequious HR department that can spontaneously launch unwarranted attacks on loyal, veteran employees. — WBI
Tags: HR, VA
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | 2 Comments »
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