What is Workplace Abuse?

Workplace abuse (aka workplace bullying) encompasses both intentional and unwitting behaviors (words, gestures, images, actions, and failure to act) which, over time, humiliate, demoralize, or terrorize an employee or group of employees, undermine their targets’ credibility and effectiveness, and contribute to a disrespectful or hostile work environment. (Source)

Prevalence

Presentation

Secondary Workplace Abuse

Human Cost

Factors include:

  • Total number of employees in your organization (Source)
  • 13.78% – the prevalence of workplace abuse here in the U.S. (Source)
  • ~70% – the # of workplace abuse cases that go unreported (Source)
  • ~$92,400 – the average cost to the employer per reported workplace abuse case (Source)
  • ~$40,000 – the average cost to the employer per unreported workplace abuse case (Source)

To date, the half-measures developed by my counterparts have had little effect. Why? Because the organizational and social psychologists who have driven the Workplace Bullying conversation for the past three decades have minimized the significance of pathological and other manipulative employees, employer liability, and the Scapegoat Mechanism, three aspects that are necessary to understanding and confronting primary and secondary workplace abuse. Put another way, their aim is so far askew that their arrows will never hit the target.

Unfettered by ideology, my single aim for Workplace Omega is to provide stakeholders worldwide with final solutions to workplace abuse. Ω

And now, a word from my mentor, the world’s most influential and well-respected advocate for targets and survivors of workplace abuse, regarding my work:

Dr. Gary Namie, Co-Founder and Director of the Workplace Bullying Institute

To Potential Collaborators

I am currently reaching out to key stakeholders who have the reach, the resources, and the fire-in-the-belly to work together to confront workplace abuse once-and-for-all.

I’m also recruiting fellow professionals with experience in corporate training and graphic design to help me flesh out my developments.

If you understand the complexities of workplace abuse as I do, and you’re in a position to help, please reach out.

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