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…
Are aggressive clients a variation on the workplace bully?
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…
A $625000 Lesson in Dealing with Alleged Workplace Bullying
At a price this high, you’d hope that this lesson came with a medical or maybe even a lawyers degree. Unfortunately, it didn’t. This lesson…
False Positives – Preventing False Workplace Bullying Reports
I was having a conversation with a colleague the other day about workplace bullying who holds an organisational management position. He uttered that one of…
Stopping Workplace Bullying – Safety is Everyone’s Responsibility
As a manager, I spent years prioritising the art of managing my team members’ safety. While it was a managerial responsibility required by law, the…