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WBI Study: Timing & Results of Targets Confronting Bullies at Work
Friday, March 29th, 2013
CONFRONTING BULLIES AT WORK
WBI 2013-D Instant Poll
Individuals unfamiliar with details of the workplace bullying phenomenon but who declare themselves workplace experts suggest or insist that workers targeted for bullying directly confront their assailants. In a large-sample 2012 survey [WBI-2012-Strategies Effectiveness], 70% of 1,600 individuals said they attempted to confront their bully. The torment ended in only 3.5% of situations. Confrontation was ineffective.
This 2013 Instant Poll survey investigated whether the timing of a confrontation would affect effectiveness. WBI Instant Polls are online single-question surveys that rely upon self-selected samples of individuals bullied at work (typically 98% of any sample). No demographic data are collected. Our non-scientific Instant Polls accurately depict the perceptions of workers targeted for bullying at work as contrasted with the views of all adult Americans in our scientific national surveys.
We asked 554 target-respondents to answer the following question.
For bullied targets only. When did you confront your bully, telling her or him that the abusive conduct was unacceptable to you?
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Oops: 56 percent of US employers do NOT have workplace bullying policies
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
When fuzzy facts (first generation distortion) are allowed to pass for actual data and circulated widely by media (2nd gen distortion) they used by critics to undermine the anti-bullying campaign. Let’s clear the air about current American employer engagement in stopping workplace bullying.
SHRM (the HR trade association) conducted a 2011 study about workplace bullying and reported results in Feb. 2012. The non-scientific survey of members had a low response rate of 15% (the final 401 respondents meant SHRM randomly polled 2,673 members). The results shed light on HR’s view about the prevalence of workplace bullying policies in the U.S. When asked if respondents’ organizations had specific anti-bullying policies in place, 44% of HR respondents defiantly stated their organization has “no policy and has no plans to put a workplace bullying policy in place.” The answer, “No, but we plan to put a formal policy in place in the next 12 months,” was chosen by 13%. Another 40% said, “Yes, our workplace bullying policy is part of another workplace policy.” Only 3% of SHRM members said “Yes. We have a separate workplace bullying policy” in our organization.
Actual slide from 2012 SHRM survey results from which 56% statistic was plucked
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Tags: Gary Namie, HR, human resources, SHRM, surveys, WBI research, workplace bullying, workplace bullying policies
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WBI Study: Barriers to workplace bullied targets leaving their jobs
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
BARRIERS TO WORKPLACE BULLIED TARGETS
LEAVING THEIR JOBS
WBI 2013-C Instant Poll
One of the criticisms leveled against individuals targeted for workplace bullying is that they should “just” quit. That simplistic advice is cruel and short-sighted. Quitting is not a simple decision. Consider for a moment the single parent target. What will replace the lost income?
We at WBI who have talked to thousands of targets over the years by phone and in-person know there are other barriers to leaving a toxic work environment, regardless of how damaging that job and employer are to the target’s health. It is never easy to leave, to escape to safety.
This survey asks target-respondents to evaluate which two barriers listed convinced them to not leave.
Tags: bullied targets, economic factors and bullying, Gary Namie, injustice, personal pride, waiting for time to pass, WBI research, WBI studies, Workplace Bullying Institute, workplace bullying research
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New WBI Instant Poll question – when did bullied target confront the workplace bully?
Thursday, February 28th, 2013
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WBI Workplace Bullying Research — List of 33 studies by topic
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Workplace Bullying Research
WBI’s research complements the books, websites designed to help afflicted targets and their families, individualized support we give targets and Workplace Bullying University® for which research — ours and hundreds of others — is the foundation.
Below is the WBI set of 33 studies, arranged by topic, exploring most aspects of the workplace bullying phenomenon primarily from the perspectives of targeted individuals, conducted since the year 2000.
Use links to access all study synopses & downloadable reports.
Tags: Bullying rate compared to discrimination, Bullying tactics, Economic impact on bullying for targets, Employers' attitudes & actions, Gary Namie, Health harm from bullying, HR & bullying, Internet/Social media use & bullying, Lone perpetrator or multiple bullies, Mediation & bullying, Mobbing, Politics & bullying, Race of bullied targets, research, Targets' responses to bullying, U.S. National Prevalence, unions and bullying, WBI research, Why bullying happens, workplace bullying, Workplace Bullying Institute
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WBI Survey: Workplace Bullying from the Perspective of U.S. Business Leaders, part 2
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
PERSPECTIVE OF U.S. BUSINESS LEADERS
Part 2 of 2
Zogby Analytics was commissioned by the Workplace Bullying Institute to conduct an online survey of 315 U.S. business leaders in three market areas: San Francisco, New York City and Washington D.C. The survey was completed January 21, 2013.
The sample consisted of three groups of decision makers: Owner or partner (Owners); CXO/Administrator/Director (CXOs); President/VP/Manager (VPs). There were 58 owners, 95 CXOs, and 158 presidents. One hundred ten respondents led companies with more than 500 employees, 47 led companies with between 201-500 employees, and 48 led companies with between 50-200 employees, and 106 led companies with less than 50 employees.
Two WBI-relevant questions were asked as part of the larger Business Leaders Survey.
Read Part 1 for the results of Question 1 and comparison to the opinions of bullied targets.
Question 2
Tags: business leaders, Daniel Christensen, executives and workplace bullying, Gary Namie, WBI research, WBI studies, WBI surveys, workplace bullying, Zogby Analytics
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WBI Survey: Workplace Bullying from the Perspective of U.S. Business Leaders, Part 1
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
PERSPECTIVE OF U.S. BUSINESS LEADERS
Part 1 of 2
Most of the research conducted by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) queries individuals who have declared themselves to be targets of workplace bullying. That is, we are able to see the word through the lens of targets. These surveys are based on self-selected samples, and are necessarily non-scientific.
In a WBI 2010 survey of 333 target-respondents, they stated that only 4% of employers had raised awareness of bullying, whereas 81% had done nothing to stop bullying. Of the employers who did nothing, 46% were described as “resistant” to the topic.
WBI asked 311 targets in 2012 to describe policies their employers had created to address workplace bullying. Only 5.5% of employers were given credit for having a policy and enforcement procedure that effectively covered bullying (3% of those policies were titled “Respect” Policies). (WBI-2012-IP-B)
In a separate 2012 survey, 250 targets reported that 30% of their employers said that bullying “doesn’t happen” (at their workplace). Additionally, respondents said that 88% of American employers failed to take action at all. Employers denied their responsibility to fix the problem. (WBI-2012-IP-E)
The portrait of employer activity as told by targets was unflattering. We were able, thanks to the resources of Zogby Analytics, to poll business leaders directly. The results enable a comparison of target and executive perspectives.
Tags: 2013-IP-B, business leaders, executives, Gary Namie, owners, WBI research, WBI studies, WBI surveys, workplace bullying, Zogby Analytics
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New WBI Instant Poll seeking targets of workplace bullying
Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Tags: Gary Namie, WBI Instant Poll, WBI research
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WBI Survey: Half of workplace bullied targets forgo taking leave
Monday, February 11th, 2013
UNPAID LEAVE A REALITY FOR MANY
WBI 2013-A Instant Poll
Individuals who are bullied at work can suffer stress. With prolonged exposure, that stress can trigger stress-related diseases. Health complications follow. At some point, those individuals are adversely affected and work suffers. It becomes apparent to them, coworkers, and family members that leave from work should be taken to allow for health recovery.
Leave options for American workers include taking paid sick leave, filing for workers compensation, taking family medical leave or seeking disability insurance. Only 23% of private-sector employers offer at least one day of paid sick leave. There is no national mandate for employers to provide paid sick leave in the U.S.
Tags: bullied targets, Gary Namie, McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy, paid sick leave, targets of workplace bullying, WBI research, Workplace Bullying Institute
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WBI Survey: Mediation and Workplace Bullying
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
WBI 2011-D Instant Poll
At WBI, we have always argued against the adoption of mediation or other alternative dispute resolution practices for bullying resolution. The source of our resistance is twofold: (1) often the bullied target who is already compromised and often emotionally wounded is mandated to participate, and (2) workplace bullying is a form of violence, non-physical and sub-lethal, but interpersonal violence nevertheless.
Violent relationships cannot be mediated. Mediation requires that both parties are rational and capable of gaining an empathic understanding of the needs and intellectual interests of the other party. In bullying, only one party is rational. The other’s interest is tainted by her or his need to dominate the other party. There is no equal footing at the start. One does not mediate domestic violence. There is no halfway in the gulf between parties when one is under assault by the other.
In a 2011 WBI Instant Poll, 473 respondent/bullied targets completed a survey exploring how effective was mediation.
Tags: ADR, arbitration, Gary Namie, mediation, WBI research, workplace bullying
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