Posts Tagged ‘WBI-Zogby’
Online nonprofit takes on workplace bullying
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Washington County native and his wife go after it with online effort
By Janice Crompton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thursday, April 21, 2011
When Tom Shannon accepted a job 15 years ago, he expected to raise his family and retire after a long, satisfying career.
But instead, the 51-year-old information technology specialist from Butler County found himself confronted with what he describes as an alcoholic, abusive supervisor who, he said, eventually drove him from his job — and nearly out of his mind.
Tags: Gary Namie, pittsburgh post-gazette, Ruth Namie, WBI, WBI-Zogby, Workplace Bullying Institute
Posted in Bullying in the News | 4 Comments »
Workplace Bullying: Recognize and Prevent It
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
By Judy White, CIO Insight, Sept. 28, 2010
Cyber-bullying is just one form of workplace bullying that is becoming prevalent in the U.S. Here are the warning signs to watch for, and what you can do to prevent it.
Kevin Morrisey, the 52-year-old managing editor of the award-winning Virginia Quarterly Review, walked to a nearby area of the University of Virginia campus on July 30, 2010, and shot himself in the head. According to an ABC News report, 18 calls were made to appropriate officials to report that Morrisey was the target of workplace bullying and was seeking protection from his employer. The report alleges that the university may not have responded in a timely manner to the employee’s plea for help.
Morrisey’s suicide is only one of many workplace shootings that result from bullying. In fact, the growing epidemic of workplace bullying has been featured in a recent documentary entitled, Murder by Proxy, released in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
Tags: WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying in the News | 16 Comments »
Support for Workplace Bullying Law: 2010 WBI Survey
Monday, September 6th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding the level of support for the workplace bullying law, called the Healthy Workplace Bill.
The question asked: “Do you support or oppose enactment of workplace bullying laws that would protect all workers from what can be considered malicious, health-harming abusive conduct committed by bosses and co-workers?” This is the language of the HWB. Here are the results for the entire national sample as well as by political ideology and race.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, Healthy Workplace Bill, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Legislative Campaign, Science | 2 Comments »
Race & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Monday, September 6th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding the effect of race on the experience of workplace bullying. Hispanics report the highest rates, African-Americans second highest, Asians the lowest. Public officials should infer from this that existing anti-discrimination laws (and resulting employer policies) are inadequate to stem the tide of abuse of minorities in the American workplace.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, african american, asian, hispanic, prevalence, race, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 5 Comments »
Politics & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding political party affiliation and political ideology.
Because bullying ignores gender and rank boundaries, it makes sense that hyperaggressive perpetrators of abusive misconduct do not identify with a particular political party. Nor are targets selected principally based on a political ideology.
However, in the 2007 WBI survey and now again in the 2010 WBI national survey, the reported prevalence rates for bullying differ based on party affiliation and ideology. Here are the results and comparisons with the national average.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, conservative, democratic, liberal, moderate, political affiliation, politics, republican, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 5 Comments »
Gender & Workplace Bullying: 2010 WBI Survey
Sunday, September 5th, 2010
New research findings from the 2010 Workplace Bullying Institute national scientific survey regarding gender and workplace bullying.
Gender of targets: 58% are women; 42% are men
Gender of perpetrators: 62% men; 38% women
Men bullies target men in 55.5% of cases; women in 45.5%
What tends to make news (based on the 2007 WBI findings) is that women bullies target women in 79.8% of cases; men in 20.2%. In 2007, the woman-on-woman bullying prevalence was 71%. Now it is 80%. Looks like the American workplace is grower ever more toxic for women, at the hands of women.
Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, gender, WBI-Zogby, woman-on-woman
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Science | 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 »
Workplace Bullying Still Rampant in U.S.
Monday, August 30th, 2010
In August, 2010 the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) commissioned Zogby International to conduct a survey of adult Americans. The results showed that workplace bullying is still a problem for 53.5 million Americans. In the scientific, national poll, 35% of Americans report personally being bullied. By including those who only witness it, 50% of have experienced bullying, directly or vicariously, at work. Another 50% say that have neither experienced nor seen it.
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Tags: 2010 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey, Healthy Workplace Bill, WBI-Zogby, workplace bullying
Posted in Announcements, Legislative Campaign, Science | 1 Comment »
WBI Healthy Workplace Bills target workplace bullying
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
“New laws target workplace bullying” by Adam Cohen, Time magazine, July 21, 2010
There are some very important things they don’t tell you on career day. Chief among them is that there is a good chance that at some point during your working adult life you will have an abusive boss — the kind who uses his or her authority to torment subordinates. Bullying bosses scream, often with the goal of humiliating. They write up false evaluations to put good workers’ jobs at risk. Some are serial bullies, targeting one worker and, when he or she is gone, moving on to their next victim.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, NY Senate, Time magazine, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying in the News, Media | 19 Comments »
Ohio Bullybuster
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Banishing Bullies by PAUL GIANNAMORE, Business editor, Steubenville (OH) Herald Star, May 2, 2010
Retired auto dealer joins Healthy Workplace Bill movement
STEUBENVILLE – It’s not as long a journey from automobile dealer to citizen advocate if one is committed to a cause. The switch in John Smurda’s life came as a result of reading a book and considering what he’s seen in his own family over the years. Smurda, a city resident, is now a volunteer citizen advocate for Ohio to pass a bill offering legal remedies to targets of workplace bullying.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, Ohio, Smurda, WBI-Zogby
Posted in Bullying in the News, Legislative Campaign | 3 Comments »
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