On Toyota: What would you have done?
Safety problems with Toyota automobiles have been a dominant news item in recent months, and now Associated Press investigative reporters Curt Anderson and Danny Robbins (link here) have concluded that...
View ArticleReforming legal scholarship: A therapeutic jurisprudence approach
On several occasions I have invoked the lessons of therapeutic jurisprudence (“TJ”) — a movement that examines the therapeutic and anti-therapeutic properties of law and legal practice — to examine...
View ArticlePaper highlighting main features of the Healthy Workplace Bill
For those who would like a relatively succinct explanation of the main features of the Healthy Workplace Bill, I’ve provided a link below to a short paper that I put together for a conference this...
View ArticleVolcano-induced hiatus
Hello dear readers! More posts to come, but for now I’m in Germany with fingers crossed that I’ll be able to get home to Boston by the end of the week. I’ve been in Augsburg, Germany since Thursday,...
View ArticleUniversity of Augsburg conference on workplace bullying and discrimination
Greetings from the beautiful Bavarian city of Augsburg, Germany, where before being stranded by volcanic ash I participated in a terrific weekend conference on workplace bullying and discrimination...
View ArticleAccused workplace bullies suffer, study shows
Australian psychologist and Ph.D. candidate Moira Jenkins has studied bosses accused of workplace bullying and found that they “suffer severe health effects including post-traumatic stress disorder,...
View ArticleAlaska nurse blogs about workplace bullying experience
Alaska nurse Celia Harrison recently posted a long blog entry about her struggles with PTSD as a result of bullying at work: I have tests I need to have done, yet can’t bring myself to go to the...
View ArticleFOX on the workplace: 24, Glee, and American Idol
If you want entertaining TV insights into work, school, and the American culture of popularity and success, three shows on the FOX network are worth watching: 24, Glee, and American Idol. I’ve blogged...
View ArticleScandals that aren’t
[Readers will note that my original post on this topic was written on April 27, 2010, when fuller details about Paul Levy’s conduct had yet to become public. The underlying facts are now known and well...
View ArticleBaristas Bullied in Brooklyn?
If you think that claims of workplace bullying are limited to the big bad corporation, you might want to check out the story of Gorilla Coffee, a crunchy granola cafe in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that had...
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