Posts Tagged ‘HR’
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 | 1 Comment »
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, WBI 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 | 6 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 | 1 Comment »
Video: The Real HR
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Confessions from a former director of the department of “Dark Arts.” from Fired! (c) 2007 Shout Factory
Tags: HR
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | 6 Comments »
HR Fails Targets, Supports Bullies
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Is this broad, sweeping generalization fair? We think so. In all of the years of listening to the thousands of true accounts, only ONE HR executive ever took action against a bully. [If you have evidence to the contrary, send that person's name to us at WBI and we'll laud him or her and that HR department.]
Look at the research finding below from the WBI 2000 research. Targets reported in the survey that HR, when informed about the bullying, either DID NOTHING (which is not a neutral act when someone asks for help) or took NEGATIVE ACTIONS (like instructing the bully how to misuse the performance evaluation system to drive the target away or smearing the target’s reputation with senior management) in a total of 83% of cases. That means they supported the bullied target positively in only 17% of cases. HR hurts; it rarely helps.
Tags: HR
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Employer Action/Inaction | Post a Comment »
Bully Principal Costs Fortune
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Do the math to see how much the bullying principal, two assistant district superintendents (including the HR person) and compliance director cost the district.
$119,957 — 2004 arbitration won by Northcutt
$225,000 — 2005 settlement won by Northcutt
$60,475 (est.) 10 years district contribution to her retirement
$35,200 (est.) 10 years health and welfare benefits for Northcutt
$104,956 — district legal expenses, all designed to enable bullying without consequences
$545,588 the total expense for ONE bully principal and 3 supportive district personnel !!! (more…)
Tags: HR, Northcutt, Vallejo High
Posted in Court Rulings | Post a Comment »
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