Posts Tagged ‘WBI’
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 WBI Legislative Campaign | 7 Comments »
Power and incompetence: The makings of an office bully
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
by Hans Villarica, Medill Wire Service, Oct. 22, 2009
Researchers Nathanael Fast of the University of Southern California and Serena Chen of the University of California, Berkeley, found in a series of studies that it is actually the combination of power and incompetence that can result in bad boss behavior. The paper will be published in the November issue of the journal Psychological Science. [FYI, the paper is also described in our article and can be requested from the WBI Research list - A7. ] (more…)
Tags: Adam Galinsky, aggression, bully boss, incompetence, Nathaniel Fast, Ruth McKay, Serena Chen, WBI
Posted in Bullying in the News, Science | 2 Comments »
School District Program to Guard Against Workplace Bullying
Friday, September 18th, 2009
By Meagan Sexton | Posted: Friday, September 18, 2009
SIOUX CITY — The Sioux City Community School District wants to practice what it teaches by developing an anti-bullying program for adults.
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Tags: Alan Heisterkamp, Bruce Lear, Cindy Waitt, schools as workplace, Sioux City, Steve Crary, WBI
Posted in Bullying in the News | Post a Comment »
Downturn Gives Bullies More Power to Torture
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
By Tali Arbel
Associated Press Business Writer
Newsday
June 30, 2009BULLY WATCH: The recession is creating a “blank check” for office bullies, said one employee advocate.
The downturn’s layoffs – job rolls have shrunk by 6 million since the recession’s start – may make a bad situation worse for victims, said Gary Namie, director of the Workplace Bullying Institute, an advocacy group.
Tags: AP, help for targets, Namie, recession, WBI
Posted in Bullying in the News | 2 Comments »
Video: BNET/Calling A Bully A Bully
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Video: Calling A Bully A Bully
BNET Featured Video
October/November, 2008
Features WBI colleague and expert Carrie Clark
Co-Founder, California Healthy Workplace Advocates
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer by Adam Penenberg
and
How to Handle a Workplace Bully by Jennifer Alsever
Tags: BNET, CHWA, Clark, WBI
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Media, Social Justice | Post a Comment »
Bullying is Morally Wrong
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Doing nothing is not a neutral act when an individual pleas for relief from the emotional misery bullying inflicts. Doing nothing is denying the person credibility as an adult. Doing nothing is sustaining the status quo and defending the perpetrator, however implicitly or indirectly. How dare HR, the primary agent responsible for implementing or blocking the employer’s response to reported bullying, side with the bully (most often in management, 73%) against the employee who naively came to HR for “help”!
So at the beginning of our second decade, we must not be reticent about calling perpetrators and those who support them immoral. It is not our subjective morality that is violated, but the deeper sense of human dignity that is undermined when victims of bullying are not supported. We need to rekindle our compassion for those less fortunate than us whose fate was not their own making. Bully apologists have an indefensible, unconscionable position of favoring abuse.
Once we are bullied and feel the full force of a laser-focused campaign of interpersonal abuse, we drop the smug justifications for the bully. If we work long enough in enough different places and encounter enough incompetent bosses, we are likely to be bullied ourselves in our work life (37% of U.S. workers are). The only people who still doubt that bullying happens are the ones who have never suffered an unexpected, univited disaster or catastrophe. Events humble arrogant superiority known only to those lacking experience in bullying, direct or witnessed. But we should not have to wait for everyone to be personally bullied so that they understand how destructive bullying can be to personal health, careers, families, and employers.
Tags: morality, WBI
Posted in Bullying Tutorials, Social Justice | 10 Comments »
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