Workplace Bullying Institute


Employer & HR Resistance to Change

The Bad News

Confessions of a former HR director, video clip from DVD Fired!
The Real HR: A Confessional

  • An article by Dr. Namie in Employment Relations Today for the HR audience, 7/31/07

  • Why U.S. employers do so little to stop workplace bullying.

  • 7/23/07 lawsuit by Vets against VA for PTSD diagnosis denials & delays -- the original article that launched the lawsuit: Persecution of War-Injured Soldiers by the Military as Employer-Therapist-Insurer, an investigative report, 4/4/07

  • BP Bully Backstabbed by Corporate Execs Under Congressional Spotlight, 9/11/06

  • UK survey: Employers ignore bullying while 80% of workers affected, 8/06

  • Boss brands employee Al-Quaida from liberal radio bumper sticker, fires her

  • Workplace Group Dynamics that inhibit witnesses of bullying to help. It's all about fear
    The Abilene Paradox
    Groupthink
    Dissonance
    Group Sides with the Bully
    Winners Take All; Targets Are Losers

    Abilene Paradox, Modern Application
    Abilene Paradox, modern application

  • Human Resources and bullying; HR is NOT ally for targets

  • HR at the VA fabricates claims of employee "Sedition"

  • Employers' voluntary controls don't work; it takes laws to compel attention

  • Illustration of contempt for employees who might want a union; tips from a union buster then at Wal-Mart, now an exec in healthcare

    What Co-Workers and Employers Could Do

  • Listen to the archived audio podcast interview with Dr. Gary Namie on "The Cranky Middle Manager" with Wayne Turmel original air date: Nov. 18, 2005

  • What Co-Workers can and should do

  • Drive Fear Out of the Organization

  • Why Employers $hould Care

  • A Strategic Opportunity for Employee Assistance, article by Dr. G. Namie published in the Journal of EA, fall 2003

  • An article about employers for employers, Ivey Business Journal (Canada) (in .pdf format)

  • What an employer can do Convert from a bullying-prone workplace to a bullying-free one