School District Program to Guard Against Workplace Bullying
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. The...
View ArticlePower and incompetence: The makings of an office bully
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...
View ArticleWorkplace Bullying Bills Alive in the States
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...
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Wisconsin becomes 17th state to introduce Healthy Workplace Bill
We thank Representatives Roys, Sinicki, Berceau and Senator Coggs for introducing AB 894 on March 24, 2010. Since 2003, 17 states have introduced (but not signed into law) the WBI anti-bullying...
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Amid emotional testimony, bill targets workplace bullying
By Dee J. Hall, Wisconsin State Journal, April 8, 2010 On Feb. 3, 2008, Jodie Zebell took her own life … A Spanish teacher testified she was “iced out and isolated” for four years by older colleagues...
View ArticleWorkplace Bullying Academics Meet-Up in Cardiff
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...
View ArticleSelf-defeating stigma an integral part of workplace bullying
In a recently completed Nov. 2010 WBI Instant Poll with 1069 respondents (of whom 98% are typically self-declared targets of workplace bullying), we asked if any personal shame or stigma was attached...
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Unions and workplace bullying
Results of the Jan 2011 WBI Instant Poll on unions’ role in workplace bullying. Employers have unchecked power over non-unionized employees. Whatever dribbles of democracy and employee participation...
View ArticleOnline nonprofit takes on workplace bullying
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...
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Horrible Bosses: When your boss is a bully
Sometimes, a bad boss crosses the line into downright abusive behavior. Even in states where bullying isn’t illegal, there are ways to protect your sanity. By Anne Fisher, contributor, July 8, 2011:...
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Face Off: how to beat the office bully
August 5th, 2011, Management Line, The Sydney Morning Herald Every workplace has them, but it’s hard to deal with bullies at work because more often than not, they are in positions of power. It may be...
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Complex PTSD: Devastating Health Effects From Workplace Bullying
By Andrew Mitchell Suite 101 August 18th 2010 The harming effects of workplace bullying can go further than mere embarrassment. A target may become psychologically injured after long-term abuse....
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New Turkey Button from WBI
WBI design guru, Dave Phillips, created this lovely Thanksgiving-themed graphic. It reminds us all that bullies erode profits and prevent balanced budgets because of their meddling. Their misconduct...
View ArticleHow to Deal With the Workplace Bully
by Frank Kalman, Talent Management, Nov. 8, 2011 About a third of the U.S. workforce has fallen victim to workplace bullying. Learning to mitigate the problem means creating a more open work...
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WBI response to J. Harper’s spurious claim of “anti-bully hysteria”
A Dec. 15 post on the Huffington Post by bullied-out-of-her-career Janice Harper caught the attention of those of us operating at “ground zero” of the workplace bullying movement. Attacks on the...
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Workplace Bullying Institute 2011 Accomplishments
One WBI goal is to educate everyone — the affected individuals, employers and lawmakers — about Workplace Bullying. Acknowledgment of its existence and preventability necessarily precedes corrective...
View ArticleFox Business — Bully Adults in the Workplace: What to Do
Barbara Mannino Fox Business News Feb 17, 2012 Adults who thought their days of dealing with bullies were left behind on the schoolyard better think again. A 2011 CareerBuilder study shows that 27% of...
View ArticleGary Namie discusses Workplace Bullying on WBEZ 91.5 FM Chicago
As promised, here is the audio from Dr. Namie’s appearance NPR WBEZ-FM Chicago’s show Eight Forty-Eight with host Tony Sarabia on April 13, 2012. WBEZ The article that goes with it. The movie Bully,...
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Workplace Bullying University: Training professionals for mastery
Since 2008, WBI founders have periodically offered intensive, interactive, small-group training for mental health counselors, human resources professionals, attorneys, trainers and consultants. All...
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WBI: Guided by the bullied workplace target’s perspective
The Workplace Bullying Institute is approaching its 15th birthday. Too often we assume readers know everything about us. This can’t be true. So, we offer something for newbies who might not know that...
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