A guarantee of maintaining confidentiality is a key element in successful workplace investigations whether completed internally or by an external party. It protects employees from…
Why you can’t guarantee workplace investigation confidentiality
Ostracism – A workplace bullying injury
Have you noticed that in this modern world we never seem to be alone? Of course, we may be physically alone, but all around us…
Five signs of workplace bullying resistance
Have you ever worked in a company or organisation where it resembled a battlefield more than a workplace? Where whispered conversations in the corridors, the…
Are aggressive clients a variation on the workplace bully?
One of the many challenges that exist for organisations within health, community or social welfare based services are individual clients who use aggressive behaviours. Organisations…
When the workplace bully rules the roost…
For many of our fellow colleagues (and ourselves) there is an expectation that prevention and management of workplace bullying starts with line management. General employees…
Is resilience a workplace bullying “dirty word”?
Resilience. It is a word that embodies flexibility and strength; a capacity to bounce back; a response where no problem is unsolvable. That is how…
Asking the question “Have you been injured by workplace bullying?”
Are you hurt? Are you injured? These are two specific questions that we are likely to ask if somebody has been physically injured in the…
The role of duration and frequency in workplace bullying injury
For some of us, the question of why people are injured by workplace bullying, sometimes so severely, is a question that is difficult to understand.…
Does intent matter when addressing workplace bullying?
The word intent implies that a person who uses bullying behaviour has the goal, purpose or aim to bully another person. It implies choice. Yet not…
The role of individualised assessments in managing workplace bullying health and safety risk
For just under two decades, I worked in the community services sector that has managed risk through the completion of individualised assessments. We completed those…