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 3, 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 29, 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 29, 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 29, 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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Clara Wajngurt

Jan 7, 2019
1 min

Bullying is Trauma

Bullying is a traumatic experience. Reactions to trauma generally include grief reactions like 'I wish I would have.....' or 'It was my fault...' and a sense of powerlessness, fear or terror. In general, trauma is any experience that leaves a person feeling hopeless, helpless, fearing for their life/survival or fearing for their safety. This experience can be real or perceived (National Institute of Trauma and Loss of Children). When a person is traumatized, the person become

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What Do I Do When My Old Boss Who Bullied Me Provides A Bad Reference?

Clara Wajngurt

Jan 7, 2019
1 min

What Do I Do When My Old Boss Who Bullied Me Provides A Bad Reference?

If you have no other choice but to mention your boss as a reference and you believe that your boss will write a negative reference, so as to unfairly harm your future job prospects, you may be able to sue for 'negligent misstatement.' You will need to show that the information your former employer is stating in the reference, is misleading, and that the former employer was negligent in providing a positive reference. Moreover, if you think there was discriminatory retaliati

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Does Workplace Bullying Cause Mental Health Problems?

Clara Wajngurt

Dec 31, 2018
2 min

Does Workplace Bullying Cause Mental Health Problems?

We already know that workplace bullying deals with situations where co-workers persistently focus on mistreating and abusing someone or a group of persons. Very often the target or targets cannot defend themselves sufficiently so as to stop the bully from leashing out his or her behavior. The workplace bullying manifests itself in the form of unreasonable deadlines, meaningless tasks or excessive monitoring of work. Sometimes, the workplace bullying deals with the target alon

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Clara Wajngurt

Dec 29, 2018
1 min

The Bully as the Manipulator

So you find there is someone on your job who gives you anxiety and makes you angry each time you see this person. Is this person convinced he or she can control people's actions, or does this person humiliate and embarrass others? Most of the time you know how to deal with this situation. You ignore this person, decrease communication with this person, you avoid this person. However, what if this person is your boss whom you must speak to everyday? Or maybe it is a co-worker

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Clara Wajngurt

Dec 28, 2018
1 min

Extending the definition of Bullying

Workplace Bullying has been referred to as repeated, unreasonable actions of an individual or a group of individuals directed towards an employee or a group of employees, that are intended to humiliate or intimidate these employees, by posing a risk to their health and safety. However, a bully actually employs a set of behaviors that exploit especially the ones he or she wants to bully. One can't help noticing that any repetitive behavior that is cruel is interpreted as bull

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Exploring the Nature of Bullying: 3 Types of Victims

Clara Wajngurt

Dec 26, 2018
2 min

Exploring the Nature of Bullying: 3 Types of Victims

So as we discussed in the previous blog, a bullying incident involves the bully, the victim and the bystander. Bullies tend to select targets who seem to have been victimized before, or appear to look like they can be victimized in the bully's eyes. Olweus describes three types of victims. I will use the more appropriate word of target instead of victim: Passive targets do not provoke the bully directly. Socially, the passive target may seem withdrawn or even anxious, depr

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Exploring the Nature of Bullying: Different Types of Bullies

Clara Wajngurt

Dec 25, 2018
2 min

Exploring the Nature of Bullying: Different Types of Bullies

What I'd like to do in this blog is to explore the nature of bullying and discuss according to Olweus the three different types of bullies: Aggressive bullies - is the most common type of bully. Such people tend to be physically strong, impulsive, hot-tempered, belligerent and fearless. Their personality is characterized by aggression, motivated by a quest for power and a desire to dominate others. Often they see negative characteristics in p around them, especially when suc

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Resolution for the New Year: Get Rid of Toxic Workplaces

Clara Wajngurt

Dec 22, 2018
1 min

Resolution for the New Year: Get Rid of Toxic Workplaces

We already know that a toxic workplace deals with a h work environment and higher than usual stress levels. In fact, we already realize that toxic work environments do mental and physical damage to those who work in this climate. How do we know when a workplace crosses the line into toxic? Essentially you come home with internal and personal effects of your job that really aggravate you. It is one thing to have people at your organization annoy you, but when the negativity a

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Clara Wajngurt

Dec 17, 2018
2 min

4 Harmful Effects of Workplace Bullying

We know that today in 2018 there are millions of people who are targeted by workplace bullying on their jobs. As a result, targets of bullying can have deteriorating health that is caused by the destructive behavior of a boss, co-worker or a group of co-workers. So what could happen if one is bullied in the workplace: 1. Mental health suffers - people who suffer from bullying day in and day out-takes a toll on your body. Sometimes a target can suffer from Post-traumatic Stre

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Pennsylvania State Wants Responsibility if a Child is Bullied

Can Trolling Students Be Banned From Class?

The Transformation of Title IX

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

Workplace Bullying Legislation in Canada

Workplace Bullying Prevention in Canada

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

What To Do If a Formal Investigation Is Needed?

What To Do If You Are Bullied?

Impact of Workplace Bullying

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

Bullying is Trauma

What Do I Do When My Old Boss Who Bullied Me Provides A Bad Reference?

Does Workplace Bullying Cause Mental Health Problems?

The Bully as the Manipulator

Extending the definition of Bullying

Exploring the Nature of Bullying: 3 Types of Victims

Exploring the Nature of Bullying: Different Types of Bullies

Resolution for the New Year: Get Rid of Toxic Workplaces

4 Harmful Effects of Workplace Bullying

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