From sustained put\u002Ddowns to career sabotage, abuse in the workplace is common but hard to eradicate. Should employers be doing more?
“To do an experiment, I had to get approval. To buy materials I needed authorization — that’s less freedom than a PhD student has,” he says. When internal investigators found many of his allegations to be corroborated but left his antagonist in post, he quit. “I was lucky. I had a great CV, a green card and offers from other institutions. For most people that’s not the case,” says Mahmoudi who later co-founded a non-profit organization, the Academic Parity Movement, to combat bullying.
Yet bullying bosses do not all fit the mould of Charles Dickens’s metrics-obsessed Thomas Gradgrind in the novel Hard Times, nor even of the stressed boss under pressure to hit targets. According to mounting research, both under- and overachieving employees attract an outsized share of bullying, suggesting some individuals bully not in a misguided effort to drive up performance but as a career tool to drive out juniors who show hints of outshining them.
In the U.K. and U.S., unlike some European states, workplace bullying is not illegal, unless there is a breach of equality law. However, in the aftermath of #MeToo and moves by regulators and grant-awarding bodies to punish organizations that protect bullies, many employers have introduced ombuds offices, whistleblower hotlines and declared that bullying will not be tolerated.
Philippines Latest News, Philippines Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
'No one acts': Bullying at work a huge issue getting little attention from employersFrom sustained put\u002Ddowns to career sabotage, abuse in the workplace is common but hard to eradicate. Should employers be doing more?
Read more »
'No one acts': Bullying at work a huge issue getting little attention from employersFrom sustained put\u002Ddowns to career sabotage, abuse in the workplace is common but hard to eradicate. Should employers be doing more?
Read more »
Ontario employers now required to disclose how they electronically monitor workersTORONTO — Some Ontario workers can now demand to know how their employer is using electronic tools to monitor them at work.
Read more »
Store popular with local celebrities is opening its first downtown Toronto locationDowntown Toronto is getting its first location of a store that has its first shop in Vaughan, where local celebrities from the music scene have bee...
Read more »