Archive for the ‘Dirty Linen: Silence=Complicity’ Category

Filipino Newspaper Reports that New York City’s Human Rights Commission May Be a Resource for Bullied New Yorkers

Friday, November 20th, 2015

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Banzai! Moveon.org Petition Supporting NYS Healthy Workplace Has Hit 750

Thursday, November 19th, 2015

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CUNY University Faculty Senate Supports My Workplace Petition – Part 2

Sunday, November 15th, 2015

The University Faculty Senate is the faculty governance body for university-wide academic matters at The City University of New York. The 136 elected Senators represent 12,000 full- and part-time faculty, and provide a representative, collective faculty voice supporting faculty, and their governance bodies on the campuses of CUNY’s schools and colleges.

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Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership

Saturday, November 14th, 2015

Hey, Colleague Larry Shore: Shouldn’t D:F/M keep a copy of this article at the ready along with its Robert’s Rules of Order* (even if D:F/M feigns following RRoO).

In a piece he wrote several years ago, “Workplace Bullying and Ethical Leadership” (Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 2008), Professor David Yamada  “suggested that a strong test of an organization’s values and ethics is how it handles a case of severe workplace bullying perpetrated by one of its leading executives or ‘rainmakers.’ I stand behind that point today. Institutions that sweep work abuse under the rug because the perpetrator is at or near the top of the organizational chart are among the lowest of the low.”

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