Working Well Together Insights

Workplace bullying can create an environment of fear for everyone, not just the person targeted. Those who are bystanders may not feel the direct assault, but they do experience a change in their perceptions, fears and expectations due to vicarious exposure. However,...

Workplace bullying and mental health has been transitioning to be a key function of health and safety across the last decade. Where bullying has not been effectively managed in the workplace, there is a significant risk of injury to employees. Yet what happens when...

Conflict in our workplace can be both good and bad. On the one hand, where our employees are willing to compromise and find a solution it can lead to great outcomes including positive changes and better work practices. On the other hand, where it has developed into a...

Ethical infrastructure defines or guides our workplace behaviours. Often, we hear the message that bullying related ethical infrastructure is important in preventing workplace bullying, but do we actually believe it? According to a study of Human Resource (HR)...

As might be expected for a workplace bullying specialist, I often read articles and posts on workplace bullying. What I find is that every time someone refers to the bullying victim, I feel this bodily cringe. It has become as predicable as the cat with it's back hair...

In my time specialising in workplace bullying, I often hear that bullying injury is invisible. It is a psychological injury and you can't see it. Today, I am calling this out as, at best, a myth and, at worst, an excuse. Workplace bullying injury is harder to see, but...

Bullying in the workplace has many impacts and consequences. Employees can suffer various levels of psychological injuries from being bullied. It may also cause employees to subtly withdraw their labour and work to rule. This results in ineffective workplaces with...

Elon Musk has been in the media for all the wrong reasons in the past few days. If you haven’t been following the news he labelled Vernon Unsworth, rescuer of the cave trapped Thai boys, a “pedo”, an oft used reference to a paedophile, in a Twitter tweet. This has...

I was recently supporting an employee who was working her way through alleged workplace bullying. We were talking about processes used by companies to address workplace bullying and discussed both formal and informal solutions. I sent her off to explore the workplace...

Most of the time we tend to think of workplace bullying injury as psychological. However, the reality is workplace bullying is often a combination of psychological and physical. The research often lists the psychological impacts of workplace bullying. This includes...