How to Handle Workplace BulliesWhen the bully is your bossI'm lucky now, because my bosses are good people. But I lived through a period when the bully was my boss; a person who ruled by caprice and whimsy, who had sycophants in the office, who played favourites. This individual, in...
Cover Story : HIGH FLYERS - Clear for Take-off Cooperation on the flight path: One encourages his staff to break rules, the other is open with competitors about how his business operates, yet both RNZAF chief Graham Lintott and Air New Zealand CEO...
Nearly two thirds of UK employees are unhappy with the level of discrimination in the workplace, according to a new research report from disability insurer Unum. Attitudes towards people with mental disabilities attracted the poorest rating, with only about a...
Executive Summary * Nursing organizations and hospitals are not immune from the ravages of incivility. * Toxic behavior can range from the very serious bullying and sabotage of very destructive people to the annoying and hard to cope behavior of just plain jerks....
The No Asshole Rule Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D. Warner Business 1271 Avenue of Americas, New York NY 10020 0446526568, $22.99 www.hachettebookgroupusa.com From insensitive bosses to corporate bullies, THE NO ASSHOLE RULE: BUILDING A CIVILIZED WORKPLACE AND SURVIVING ONE THAT ISN'T...
Chicago Cardinal Francis George acknowledges responsibility for the fiasco that evolved out of what is supposed to be that archdiocese's child abuse prevention program. He is right to do so. But we are left wondering what he means by that. The details (see...
ABC Comedy 52 Fights Focuses on the transition from dating to marriage; based on a book A Day in the Life Each episode focuses on different points-of-view...
ANNE'S CHILD WAS SICK THIS MORNING and, as a result, she showed up 10 minutes late to work, knowing full well what was about to happen. Jim didn't disappoint. As soon as she set foot in the office, he loudly recited the tardiness policy, and made it...
Jan 23, 2006 (Discrimination Alert - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Victorian State Service Authority has issued the "People Matters Survey 2005". The Authority reveals that 37 per cent of ...
Feb 20, 2005 (Discrimination Alert - ABIX via COMTEX) Victoria's Consumer Affairs office was wrong not to handle problems with a workplace bully in a timely fashion. So said the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in the case of "Morrell v the Victorian Department...
You remember that bully from school? He would insult you in front of others, or talk about you behind your back, try to exclude you from group activities, hide your school supplies, or plagiarize your class assignments. Well, the workplace bully, described as someone who systematically tries to impair your...
By Camille Wright Miller, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 25--BRIEFCASE BULLIES BLIND TO MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: Several of us were sitting in a conference room working out the details of a large project. We'd reached the point where...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Ty Votaw hung the bulletin board displaying the myriad ways his name has been misspelled in letters, tags and place cards in the one spot he's guaranteed to see it every day in his office at LPGA headquarters: his bathroom. Among the entries...
What's eight years in Internet time-about 1,000 years, give or take a century? That's what it feels like anyway, when you take a peek at the Top 10 Web sites in the February 1996 Media Metrix online audience ratings. Reston, Va.-based comScore Networks, which...
I had lunch with my CEO last week. Ninety-plus minutes of talk about international business development strategies and the risks we're likely to face. The conversation included some heavy discussion about the trends in derogatory background investigations and a long diatribe on why our distributed IT people hadn't...
If an obnoxious colleague has you chomping antacids like candy, move over: A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign study found that 71 percent of employees face condescension, general rudeness or worse at work, resulting in anxiety, depression and frequent thoughts of quitting. Here, experts offer strategies for preventing the office...
Workplace violence has recently received attention because of the killing of several individuals by their coworkers. However, more common are passive and non-fatal forms of aggressive behavior that are manifested as psychological and emotional harassment. Workplace harassment includes dysfunctional personal interactions characterized by...
The GMB, Britain's general union has published a new leaflet demonstrating how to reduce accident levels in hotels and catering establishments, offering practical advice that will allow employers and their workforce to effectively manage safety in the workplace. Entitled 'Waiting for Better Health...
Supervisors have an important role to play when employees have behavioral problems. They should not just defer to HR. As any serious leader knows, whenever you take a team member's problems and put them on someone else's shoulders, you have just...
The standards for harassment are not identical in the workplace and the school as the law recognizes that some degree of teasing, bullying and even limited physical intimidation are unavoidable among children. However, when a student is denied access to educational benefits and opportunities as the result of harassment, the...
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