Workplace Bullying Podcast

Plaintiff's employment attorney Jessica Childress discusses her e-book and e-course, Peace: Leaving A Toxic Workplace On Your Own Terms. Jessica is a Washington, DC-based attorney with lots of trial experience coupled with consulting to organizations on training workplace investigators, writing employee handbooks, DEI training as well as legal strategies. She describes the vagaries of U.S. employment law. You can read about he...

Stoic authority and Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia) Associate Professor of Philosophy, Matthew Sharpe, PhD, discusses how his specialty, Stoicism, provides a toolkit of techniques to offset the misery bestowed by workplace bullying. He is author of the new book, Stoicism, Bullying and Beyond: How to Keep Your Head When Others Around You Have Lost Theirs and Blame You. Don't be fooled by any stereotypes about academic ...

Veteran researchers Loraleigh Keashly, PhD (Associate Dean and Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit) and Kathleen Rospenda, PhD (Professor, Psychiatric Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago) discuss 25 years of research of emotional abuse and workplace bullying. Convergent themes include the roles of chronic, long-term exposure to abuse, the relational aspect of it, and the importance of the context of the abuse. In addi...

Dr. Ståle Einarsen, Director, Bergen Bullying Research Group; Professor, University of Bergen discusses his voluminous body of work from the past 32 years. Without peer, Einarsen's prolific work, cited 43,571 times on Google Scholar, leads all academic researchers in both breadth and depth of knowledge on the topic. We cover the search for personality predictors of targethood, a model of destructive leadership (yes, there is w...

Dr. Maureen Duffy, co-author of Overcoming Mobbing and psychotherapist with extensive experience delivering trauma-informed care to bullied individuals, makes the case for ending the habit of making targets fix situations they did not cause. She invokes famous chef Emeril Lagasse's trademark exhortations -- "Bam!" and "Bump it up a level." Instead of adding flavors to food, Dr. Duffy refers to switching the...

Kiwis enjoy a reputation as progressive, compassionate people. But the government's failure to adequately address cases of harmful workplace bullying torpedoes that national myth. Allan Halse, the nation's longest serving worker advocate in bullying cases through CultureSafe, his small and successful organization, details how various entities abdicate responsibility to enforce the Health and Safety Act of 2015 and other r...

In contrast with the indifference too many unions show towards bullying of its members, MAPE (Minnesota Association of Professional Employees) is the model of compassion and action regarding workplace bullying. Kathy Fodness, the Business Agent who led the internal campaign, and Alice Percy, a state worker who served on the initial Task Force, describe what MAPE did -- from discovery, to purging toxic managers, to surveying members...

Podcast 1.7 Attorney Ellen Pinkos Cobb, author of Managing Psychosocial Hazards and Work-Related Stress in Today's Work Environment: International Insights for U.S. Organizations (2022), discusses the advances made around the world to reduce harm to workers from psychosocial factors (work conditions and social factors). Great progress has been made to prevent employers from engaging employees after work hours, to guarantee the...

"Luke," a former TV news executive who speaks anonymously, introduces us to the abusive culture and some of the players he's encountered in the major corporate networks. The prototypical TV exec is profiled with real-world illustrations of destructive, draconian bullying tactics. Money and attention hardly justify how toxic work is for those who produce the news for the viewing public. Luke offers hope as he describe...

G. Richard Shell, author of The Conscience Code: Lead with your Values. Advance Your Career, and professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics and Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, discusses the importance of personal duties felt, character, responsibility and integrity in life. Aim toward the profound tranquility of living authentically. And he advises targets how to rediscover their lost selves in a...