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Minding the Workplace
AUGUST 13, 2022
This is an updated and revised annotated list of books on workplace bullying and related topics, following up on earlier lists published here in 2011 and 2018. This list now sorts recommended volumes into categories, while recognizing there is considerable overlap among them.
Minding the Workplace
JULY 27, 2022
A few weeks after the standard wave of school Commencement ceremonies, philosophy professor Evan Selinger (Rochester Institute of Technology) took to the pages of the Boston Globe ( link here ) for the purpose of offering one piece of advice to recent graduates: .
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Minding the Workplace
JULY 19, 2022
Screenshot from Inside Higher Education. Applying just about any conventional measure, law professor Amy Wax has built a spectacularly successful career. She holds a chaired professorship at an Ivy League law school (University of Pennsylvania). She has assembled a ferocious c.v.
Minding the Workplace
JULY 14, 2022
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of interviewing Drs. Ruth and Gary Namie of the Workplace Bullying Institute about the history of their pioneering work to address workplace bullying, the latest addition to Gary’s Workplace Bullying Podcast series.
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Minding the Workplace
JULY 7, 2022
Image courtesy Clipart Panda. As discussed on this blog last year , the pandemic did not put the breaks on workplace bullying, at least in the U.S.
Minding the Workplace
MARCH 10, 2022
I’m pleased to report that here in Massachusetts, the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill (HWB) has been reported favorably by the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development of the state legislature.
Minding the Workplace
MAY 10, 2022
From the Harvard Business Review. Writer and communication coach Carmine Gallo, writing on “What the Best Presenters Do Differently” for the Harvard Business Review ( link here ), reminds us of the importance of storytelling in trying to reach an audience: Our minds are wired for story.
Minding the Workplace
JUNE 11, 2022
A welcomed, if long overdue announcement from the White House and an excellent New York Times article have brought important questions about unpaid internships back into the spotlight.
Minding the Workplace
APRIL 18, 2022
Dear readers, if you’d like to learn more about workplace bullying from leading researchers and subject-matter experts, then check out Dr. Gary Namie’s Workplace Bullying Podcast ( link here ).
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Minding the Workplace
MARCH 31, 2022
We have long known that children who have disabilities are more likely to experience bullying behaviors than their peers who are perceived as being non-disabled. The National Bullying Prevention Center ( link here ), for example, shares that in 10 U.S.
Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 31, 2022
I’ve been meaning to write about a December spectacle in South Dakota, whereby public school teachers participated in a wild grab for 5,000 $1 bills in the middle of a hockey rink, before cheering spectators.
Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 1, 2022
With Betty White’s passing at the age of 99, this internet meme about White refusing to ban Arthur Duncan, an African American dancer, from the cast of her television variety show in 1954, is getting wide circulation. Of course, the social media world is full of distortions and fabrications.
Minding the Workplace
APRIL 14, 2022
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Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 18, 2022
In my last post , I wrote about my visits to SafeHarbor ( link here ), the online site created by Dr. Gary Namie, co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute , to serve as “a community dedicated to the people affected by workplace bullying and those devoted to helping them.”
Minding the Workplace
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
The historic Old South Meeting House, Boston, Dec. 2013 (photo: DY). As we approach the holiday season in a world of social, political, and pandemic tumult, it’s understandable and even sensible that many folks may feel more reflective than celebratory.
Minding the Workplace
JANUARY 4, 2022
During the past few months, I’ve become a regular visitor and contributor to SafeHarbor ( link here ), the online site created last year by Dr. Gary Namie, co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute , to serve as “a community dedicated to the people affected by workplace bullying and those devoted to helping them.”
Minding the Workplace
OCTOBER 29, 2021
One of my favorite journals, The Hedgehog Review , devotes the bulk of its current issue ( link here ) to the theme of authenticity. I concede that among the pieces, Joseph E.
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Minding the Workplace
DECEMBER 2, 2021
My morning routine usually involves clicking around to a lot of newspapers and news sites to assess the state of things. I’m pretty good at understanding that typical daily news coverage is going to emphasize conflicts, challenges, and problems.
Minding the Workplace
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Well folks, ’tis the season. For workplace bullies and toxic bosses, I mean. This year’s top Scrooge may well be Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, who used a Zoom call last week to lay off the 900 workers who were summoned to be on the call.
Minding the Workplace
OCTOBER 19, 2021
For years, the Workplace Bullying Institute has been sponsoring Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week ( link here ), which provides us with an opportunity to reflect upon and grow a larger movement addressing workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse.
Minding the Workplace
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
After a brief hiatus, Dr. Gary Namie, co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute, will be offering a new session of Workplace Bullying University ( link here ) — an immersive and interactive graduate-level program on the dynamics of workplace bullying — during the weekends of January 8-9 and January 22-23, 2022.
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Minding the Workplace
DECEMBER 5, 2021
The latest issue of the ABA Journal , the membership magazine of the American Bar Association, includes a generous profile of my work on workplace bullying and on therapeutic jurisprudence, as the latest in its “ Members Who Inspire ” series.
Minding the Workplace
NOVEMBER 1, 2021
(image courtesy of clipart-library.com). Hello dear readers, this morning I took a quick look at my blog stats, wondering what older posts about workplace bullying and related topics have been attracting attention during the fall.
Minding the Workplace
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
Dear readers, I’ve revised and updated my “Need Help?” ” resources page ( link here ) for folks who are dealing with workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse situations.
Minding the Workplace
OCTOBER 24, 2021
Hello dear readers, I’m offering a bit of a Sunday sidebar for those of you who are lifelong learners, always thirsting to gain new understandings about topics that draw your attention.
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Minding the Workplace
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
On Wednesday, I discussed bullying, mobbing, and incivility in healthcare workplaces at a Grand Rounds session hosted by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, in New York City.
Minding the Workplace
JULY 5, 2022
Peeking from behind the trees, fireworks from the Boston Pops annual July 4 celebration. Yesterday, for the first time in my 28 years in Boston, I did the famous Boston Pops July 4 celebration.
Minding the Workplace
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Flyer from the Feb. 22 event. On February 22nd, I had the privilege of participating in a “A Conversation on Cancel Culture,” featuring former ACLU president and law professor Nadine Strossen (New York Law School).
Minding the Workplace
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
This year, I’ve been writing about my visits to SafeHarbor ( link here ), the online site created by Dr. Gary Namie, co-founder of the Workplace Bullying Institute , to serve as “a community dedicated to the people affected by workplace bullying and those devoted to helping them.”
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