Workplace bullying injury is hard to see. Mental health injury doesn’t show itself through x-rays or ultrasounds. When employees are injured from bullying, it is…
Are you the ethical employer that bullying injury ends with?
Are you risking your business by providing passive support to your bullied employees?
You have an employee who has alleged bullying towards them or you believe might be bullied. If you have one, you have advised them they…
It’s not bullying if there isn’t repeated unreasonable behaviours
For a situation to be bullying in the workplace, there must be three key characteristics present. These are unreasonable behaviour, that is repeated and creates…
Is it important when a safe work authority doesn’t get bullying right?
In South Australia, a victory of sorts is being claimed for the “first successful bullying prosecution”. The outstanding gaff is that the prosecution isn’t based…
A case study in workplace bullying legislation abuse
Let’s be honest, the term bullying, and the relevant anti-bullying legislation, can be used and abused. A key question is how often, which is up…
Your laissez-faire leadership style – is it increasing job insecurity and workplace bullying risk?
Workplace bullying can lead to job insecurity. This fact probably doesn’t come as a surprise to many of you. However, what happens when you add…
Improving our Responses to Workplace Bullying. What we can learn from Victoria Police.
In April 2019, Victoria Police hit the headlines of The Age newspaper for all the wrong reasons. According to the report, Detective Senior Sargent Mark…
Are we abandoning our bullied employees?
I was recently reading a research article from Canada that explored men’s experience of workplace bullying as the target of those behaviours. In this research…
Should our stand be “Zero Tolerance” for workplace bullying?
Have you read your workplace bullying policy? Does it say your company has a “Zero Tolerance” for bullying in your workplace? I was recently reading…
Are your managers your workplace bullying problem?
Some years ago, I had a manager who said to me “You know, some of the employees around here are afraid of me”; and then…