Why don’t management intervene when there is a bully in the workplace? Can’t they see the damage that is being done to their business? The risk to employees’ mental health? The Workcover claims? The lost productivity? The good employees walking out the door? In...
Work Safe Australia’s recent report presents data that shows workplace mental health injury claims are increasing in relation to both lost time at work and cost. Money that could be used in achieving your business goals or keeping you clients or customers happy is...
The numbers are going up in relation to workplace mental health and it is not in a good way for businesses around Australia. Safework Australia has recently released it’s 2017-18 statistical report on Workers Compensation and the trends are not healthy when it comes...
Mental health issues in the workplace are complex. When you add claims of bullying and a rejected Workcover claim appeal, it can be complexity upon upon complexity. In this article, we review a decision made by the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission in...
I was attending a networking event recently where another attendee and I struck up a conversation. In talking about what we do, he advised he was manager in a large, well known company. I advised I worked in the world of workplace bullying prevention and management....
What’s it like to walk in the shoes of an accused workplace bully? Can we find empathy for that employee? Or is it someone who has been labelled and the mud has been well and truly smeared all over them? If we explore this question from a research base, it is...
