Posts Tagged ‘Yamada’
NY SENATE PASSES LANDMARK LEGISLATION TO HALT BULLYING AND ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
New York State Senator Thomas P. Morahan, Chairman of the Committee on Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities today secured Senate passage of his landmark legislation (S.1823-B) which establishes a civil cause of action for employees who are subjected to an abusive work environment. The May 12 Senate floor vote was 45 in favor, 16 against, 1 abstention.
Tags: Healthy Workplace Bill, HWB, Morahan, Namie, NY Healthy Workplace Advocates, NY Senate, Onorato, S1843B, Schlicht, Sheldon Silver, Skelos, Susan John, Witt, Workplace Bullying Institute, Yamada
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The Emerging Mob
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Please read this essay by our friend and colleague Suffolk University Law School Professor David Yamada about the dangerous and violent trends that have polluted our national discourse in recent times.
Tags: Yamada
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International Association on Workplace Bullying & Harassment
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
As a follower of the workplace bullying phenomenon, you are invited to join the new IAWBH organization. Tell your friends. Begun at the biannual conference held in Montreal in 2008 (described at this site), this group which was primarily limited to academic researchers in the early years is now reaching out to a broader constituency — clinicians, practitioners, non-academics.
The next conference is June 2-4, 2010 in Cardiff, Wales. WBI will be represented with Dr. Gary Namie and Prof. David Yamada delivering keynote addresses and presenting papers.
Tags: Cardiff, conference, IAWBH, Namie, Yamada
Posted in Announcements, Events | 3 Comments »
Occupational Stress & Health Conference – November
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Sponsored by the American Psychological Association/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health /Society for Occupational Health PsychologySan Juan, Puerto Rico | The Conference Program | The Conference Website
WBI participation (more…)
Tags: APA, Fox, Namie, Neuman, NIOSH, Rospenda, Stallworth, Yamada
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Human Wellbeing: Toward A Better “Success”
Monday, July 13th, 2009
Canadians are again doing something right and Americans should follow their lead. Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow and others founded, without government funding, the independent, non-partisan Institute of Wellbeing and developed the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW). For example, the CIW considers overwork and stress as social deficits. You can read the first CIW report just recently issued.
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Tags: CIW, homeless, Institute for Wellbeing, OECD, Pew Research, Romanow, Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Yamada
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2010 International Workplace Bullying Conf
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
2010 Cardiff Conference
June 2-4, 2010
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Tags: conference, Einarsen, Hoel, IABH, Lutgen-Sandvik, Namie, Rayner, Salin, Sheehan, Wales, Yamada
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