Al Jazeera Doesn’t Call It “Dirty Linen”

May 18th, 2015

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It makes practical sense for a news operation to point out that workplace and academic bullying are costly to the institutions where the bullying takes place. But too many institutions perceive workplace bullying as a business expense or a practice that has to be endured because of tradition. And, of course, because of ignorance.

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New York Healthy Workplace Advocates Update – May 2015

May 17th, 2015

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Dear Carl: Hope You Are as Supportive of the NY Healthy Workplace Bill to Put an End to “Dirty Linen”

May 15th, 2015

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What To Do About Your Jerk of a Boss or Department Chair Before You Get PTSD

May 10th, 2015

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May 10th, 2015

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An Important Minding the Workplace Article About Bullying

May 4th, 2015

David Yamada, Professor of Law and founding Director of the New Workplace Institute at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, writes in his the latest issue of Minding the Workplace:

Workplace bullying is motivated by a desire to cause distress or harm to a target. In its most virulent forms, it can have a destructive impact on a target’s health and livelihood. Here is where the eliminationist instinct may be specially present, with a huge capacity for dehumanization. The target is regarded as something that can and should be rubbed out.

Read the rest of his article here.

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Hunter College Needs a “Lingua Franca”?

May 2nd, 2015

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And more bite than this one, which I’m now checking out, http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/ and more in the spirit of this one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Franca_(magazine)?

Is this not a great idea?

Gregg Morris, editor, the WORD & this site.

Gregg Morris, editor, the WORD & this site.

When Bullies Become Bosses – A Trailer

May 2nd, 2015

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