What To Know Before Accepting a Job Offer?

Clara Wajngurt

Sep 2, 2019
2 min

What To Know Before Accepting a Job Offer?

You get an interview and you are excited you are accepted for the job.But there are several things you must check before you accept a job offer: 1. Company Culture - how do you describe it? what is the vision of your organization? How do co-workers treat each other/how do they interact? 2. The People - do they seem friendly to you? can you pick up if they are ethical? Have you read company reviews? 3. Your Responsibilities - is the head of the hiring team telling you explic

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Improving the Emotional Culture of Your Workplace

Clara Wajngurt

Aug 26, 2019
1 min

Improving the Emotional Culture of Your Workplace

Mandy O'Neill from the George Mason University School of Business (McQuaid, 2019) gave some suggestions on how to improve the emotional culture of our workplaces: Intermittent surveys given to colleagues that reflect how people feel in the workplace about their jobs and themselves as they interact with others Find opportunities that encourage one to get to know your team better-find out about their personal lives and experiences-what do they bring to the organization outside

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Do You Enable a Toxic Work Culture Without Realizing It?

Clara Wajngurt

Aug 26, 2019
1 min

Do You Enable a Toxic Work Culture Without Realizing It?

On your job--do you contribute to a toxic workplace? According to Celia Swanson (2019) there are two types of team members at work-passive enablers and active enablers. Passive enablers are those colleagues who are unaware of what is happening at work. They mean well but are only focused on getting results.They assume the leaders in their organization are trustworthy and have similar values to themselves. On the other hand, active enablers see what is happening but fail to

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How To Create a Culture of Inclusion In Your Workplace

Clara Wajngurt

Aug 26, 2019
1 min

How To Create a Culture of Inclusion In Your Workplace

Imagine you are the only female manager in the office, working in a mid-level management role. Your colleagues are men who are reporting to you. You work hard to create opportunities for everyone to succeed.Then you all come to an agreement that you need to hire new talent into the organization, for a specific aspect on your team project. How do you make new employees feel welcome on the team? You do this by creating a culture of inclusion. This is done by: Committing oneself

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Clara Wajngurt

Apr 1, 2019
1 min

What Kind of Boss Do You Have?

Recently I read a quote: "it is better to have a good boss in a bad company, rather than a bad boss in a good company.." Have we heard of this quote? One can tell immediately, whether your boss is good, by how they treat other colleagues. Is your boss a person who is overbearing, louder than usual, constantly angry and #controlling, #over-competitive, #micromanaging, #sabotaging and #critical? Or is your boss a person who is trustworthy, reliable, one who stands up for colle

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Toxic Workplaces and Unethical Leadership

Clara Wajngurt

Mar 25, 2019
1 min

Toxic Workplaces and Unethical Leadership

An article by Leah Hollis, a noted national and international expert on #workplace #bullying, recently wrote an article on The Abetting Bully: Vicarious Bullying and Unethical #Leadership in Higher Education. #Vicarious bullying 'occurs when the organization fails to curtail managerial abuse.' In order to have ethical leadership-we must have empathy and genuine care of our colleagues. If this existed, there would occur fewer 'primary bullies, secondary abetting and vicarious

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Clara Wajngurt

Mar 25, 2019
2 min

Are We Bullying Our Disabled Students?

The March 22, 2019 Chronicle of Higher Education had an article titled 'Like a Slap in the Face: Advocates Say Bribery Scheme Will Harm #Students With #Learning #Disabilities'. Essentially a student called SC was diagnosed in middle school with a mathematics learning disorder called #dyscalculia. She first took the entrance SAT exam without accommodations and received a 1040 on the SAT. Then afterwards she received permission to retake the SAT. Clearly a different version

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Can We Have A Workplace Climate Free of Bullying

Clara Wajngurt

Mar 4, 2019
1 min

Can We Have A Workplace Climate Free of Bullying

The ideal workplace environment involves a #culture that demonstrates #civility to all of its members. In fact, a climate of mutual respect will be free of any form of any abuse including workplace bullying. However, an unchecked #power #imbalance exists in many organizations and awareness of these issues in every organization must be brought to the forefront. #Bullying is considered abusive conduct when it is #threatening, #humiliating and sabotaging, and it is #psychologic

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Center for Disease Control Report on the Relationship Between Bullying in Children and Suicide

Clara Wajngurt

Feb 12, 2019
2 min

Center for Disease Control Report on the Relationship Between Bullying in Children and Suicide

Lately we are hearing so many stories of children in grades K-12 who have been bullied and who unfortunately have committed suicide thereafter,-these are such tragic stories. Clearly such stories affect the family, the community and the school. Mostly these stories affect our society-- and we need to do something about it. We know that bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that deals with a perceived or real power imbalance. When bullying behavior is repeated it has serio

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Pennsylvania State Wants Responsibility if a Child is Bullied

Clara Wajngurt

Feb 11, 2019
1 min

Pennsylvania State Wants Responsibility if a Child is Bullied

According to the The Hill and The Washington Post (March 13, 2018), Representative Frank Burns (Democrat of Pennsylvania) is planning to propose a bill regarding parent's responsibility if their child bullies others. In fact, if the child bullies the first time-- school officials need to take action. If the child bullies a second time-- then the child's parents would be required to take a parenting class. Now if the child bullies a third or more times then parents would have

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Can Trolling Students Be Banned From Class?

Clara Wajngurt

Feb 11, 2019
1 min

Can Trolling Students Be Banned From Class?

I recently read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Emma Pettit (February 8, 2019, page A21) concerning a situation in which professors at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign discussed what to do when sharp, bitter language about a professor stops to be just virtual and on social media, and the writer (a student) of this language decides to subsequently sit in the professor's classroom. Jay Rosenstein, a professor of media and cinema studies has bee

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Clara Wajngurt

Feb 11, 2019
1 min

The Transformation of Title IX

I recently read an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by R. Shep Melnick (February 8,2019, page A6), a professor of American politics at Boston College.' In particular R. Shep Melnick has written a book on The transformation of Title IX (Brookings Institution Press), in which civil rights officials have' wielded the gender-equity law, in order to upend gender stereotypes, and define sexual harassment in a very broad way. He claims that although there is continued di

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Guidelines for developing a Workplace Bullying Policy (Penny, 2017)

Clara Wajngurt

Feb 5, 2019
1 min

Guidelines for developing a Workplace Bullying Policy (Penny, 2017)

The Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has developed guidelines for developing a workplace bullying policy (Penny,2017): Describe relevant legislation on workplace bullying. State goals and objectives. What is your definition of what behaviors constitute harassment or bullying. What are the consequences for violating this policy? Describe the existing code of conduct for behavior. Make a distinction between an isolated incident and repeated behavior. W

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Workplace Bullying Legislation in Canada

Clara Wajngurt

Feb 4, 2019
1 min

Workplace Bullying Legislation in Canada

The Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has the following information on workplace bullying: Bullying is seen generally as acts or verbal comments that could 'mentally' hurt or isolate a person in the workplace. Sometimes bullying can involve negative physical contact. Bullying generally involves repeated incidents or a pattern of behavior that is intended to intimidate, offend, degrade or humiliate a particular person or group of people. Employers ha

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Clara Wajngurt

Feb 2, 2019
1 min

Workplace Bullying Prevention in Canada

WorkSafeBC is the Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia (Benefits Canada, 2016) better known as WorkSafeBC agency, that deals with the enforcement of the Workers' Compensation Act in British Columbia. Many jurisdictions in Canada require companies to implement violence and harassment policies including those dealing with bullying. Sometimes it is difficult to apply these laws to actual cases. According to WorkSafeBC, they define workplace bullying through behaviors

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The Role of your Health and Safety Representative In Resolving Workplace Bullying And OSHA issues

Clara Wajngurt

Jan 29, 2019
2 min

The Role of your Health and Safety Representative In Resolving Workplace Bullying And OSHA issues

The responsibility of the Health and Safety Representative (if there is such a person) is to create a liaison with employees on matters of health, safety and welfare, as well as to report to the employer any hazards or potential hazards that an employee may be exposed to. When workplace bullying is identified by your organization as a workplace hazard the employer is expected to provide the Health and Safety Representative with any information the employer has about bullying.

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What To Do If a Formal Investigation Is Needed?

Clara Wajngurt

Jan 29, 2019
1 min

What To Do If a Formal Investigation Is Needed?

If the informal investigation does not resolve the workplace bullying situation, then a more formal investigation is needed here. First you must be proactive and think about doing something about this situation. It cannot be tolerated. In the case of a formal investigation, an impartial person who is not involved in the details of the situation should be leading this process. The following steps should be carefully heeded: 1. Your right to representation. 2. Who will conduct

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Clara Wajngurt

Jan 28, 2019
2 min

What To Do If You Are Bullied?

If you are being bullied-what kind of action can you take? 1. Check: to see if your organization has a Workplace Bullying Policy or Complaint Process. Look in any workplace handbook or newsletter for new employees or in any in-house newsletter. Complaints should be incorporated if one confirms they resolve issues quickly in a conciliatory way. 2. Seek Advice: Go to an office that deals with allegations of workplace bullying-Office of Grievance of Human Resources or Union

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Clara Wajngurt

Jan 28, 2019
1 min

Impact of Workplace Bullying

The reactions of people working in your department to bullying behavior will vary according to the nature of the bullying. Often some employees who are bullied may experience the following: 1. #Stress, #anxiety, #sleep disturbances 2. #Depression or a sense of #isolation 3. #Panic attacks and an impaired ability to make appropriate decisions. 4. Concentration problems, loss of #self-confidence, reduced performance 5. Physical injury 6. Reduced #quality of home or family life.

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What Factors Affect Organizational Climate That Encourage Workplace Bullying On The Job?

Clara Wajngurt

Jan 28, 2019
1 min

What Factors Affect Organizational Climate That Encourage Workplace Bullying On The Job?

The organizational climate is influenced by a positive or negative impact. What does it mean to be in a climate that is negative? 1. There is job insecurity. 2. Management exhibits poor skills when dealing with others. 3. Little or no supervision of employees 4. Restructuring or downsizing occurs. 5. Inadequate support or training of its employees. 6. New managers or new supervisors take over and change old procedures without discussing anything with others. 7. Introducing ne

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Eradicating Bullying In the Elementary School System - November 2019

Adolescent Bullying and Suicide - October 2019

Parents and School Administrators Confront Bullying - September 2019

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace - August 2019

Ageism in Our Workplaces - July 2019

Elder Abuse and Senior Bullying - June 2019

Parents and Bullying - May 2019

Religious Bullying - April 2019

Workplace Violence - March 2019

Suicide Related Behavior - February 2019

Tackling Workplace Bullying in Different Workplace Climates - December 2018

What is Bullying? September 2018

The Difference Between Bullying and Incivility In The Workplace - November 2018

What is Toxic Behavior in the Work Environment? October 2018

What is Bullying? September 2018

Workplace Bullying Prevention Consulting - August 2018

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