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 vag

An exploration of sources of evil with Joan Arehart-Treichel, award-winning science writer and author of Warding Off Evildoers. We discuss genetic, neuroscience and environmental origins of bad people who harm others. The fit between Joan's scientific study of evil and the experiences of people bullied at work is also examined.

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&

Suffolk University Law Professor David Yamada leads the conversation with the Drs. Namie -- Ruth and Gary -- about the origins, evolution, and current state (in 2022) of the Workplace Bullying Institute, founded by them in 1997. The American pioneers tell their story for the record in celebration of WBI's 25th anniversary.

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

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

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

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 en

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 discove

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 en