WORKPLACE VIOLENCE NEWS – continued Bullying: The Uncomfortable Truth About IT
Over the last few months IDG Connect has been investigating bullying in IT. They spoke to numerous industry professionals, consulted a panel of experts and conducted a self-selecting survey of 650 IT professionals to gather over 400 in-depth personal testimonials.
The results show 75% of our respondents claim to have been bullied at work and 85% have seen it happen to others. These results in no way prove that things are worse in IT than elsewhere, but they do paint a pretty comprehensive picture of the problem. Above all though, these findings highlight the fact that, however, these issues are defined, they are endemic through the IT workplace: if nothing else, they need to be acknowledged and discussed.
Read the full report on Bullying in the IT Workplace
Workplace Violence as Seen Through the Lens of Anger Mastery The concept of anger mastery involves understanding the anger cycle, knowing what anger is and why humans continue to experience it, and being able to adaptively deal with (or master) anger when it occurs in you or in someone else. Anger Mastery is important because, in most cases, the aggressor displays anger before he/she becomes aggressive. Anger is one of five primary emotions that have existed in our species since very early in our evolutionary history. Early in our evolutionary history, survival was the main goal of humans. Mr. (and Mrs.) Caveman lacked sharp teeth and claws so he depended on his emotions, which evolved as a threat detection system, to both alert him to a threat that would kill him and prepare him (without his having to think about it) to face that threat and either eliminate it or escape from it.
The fact that we exist today is testimony to the success of this survival system. The survival system included his senses (eye, ears, nose), his emotions, and his brain.
Today, the survival system has changed little and functions much as it did eons ago. The exception is that the thinking part of our brains has continued to develop and to provide us with the opportunity to make a more accurate assessment of the nature of the threat and choose an effective response. This is where anger mastery comes in. Problems arise in part because most threats (today) are not survival based but are psychological based and include violations of ―boundaries‖ based on a person‘s values, physical sense of comfort, belief in what is right verses wrong, fair or unfair, just verses unjust, or appropriate verses inappropriate. Psychological threats elicit feeling of vulnerability in the potential aggressor. When an aggressor perceives a threat and reacts to it as if it were a survival based threat when it is really a psychological threat, the potential for WV increases.
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Health: An Unsettling Investigation Involving Hospitals By Stephanie Stahl,
Philadelphia.CBSlocal.com
CBS 3 uncovers something disturbing happening inside local hospitals: Health care workers being attacked. The Labor Department says health care is the leading industry for workplace violence. How many attacks are there? We don‘t know because there is no uniform reporting system. So CBS 3 asked nearly 70 local hospitals how many incidents they‘ve had. Only three provided numbers. ―They don‘t like the bad publicity,‖ said Patty Eakin, President of the Pennsylvania Association of Nurses. She says some hospitals are not doing enough to protect their staff. And nurses are often reluctant to report abuse for a number of reasons, including fear of retribution from their employer.
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