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Let’s follow an Eightfold Path to psychologically healthy workplaces
A decade ago, I put forth a list of eight questions designed to determine whether or not a workplace is psychologically healthy, productive, and socially responsible toward its own workers. I called...
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Decades of repeated sexual misconduct complaints finally lead to a resolution...
Here in Greater Boston, the local news is reporting that Harvard University has stripped retired professor Jorge Dominguez of his emeritus status, following a review of multiple allegations of sexual...
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Can Amazon Prime members compel Amazon to treat its workers with greater...
Sign up here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-the-prime-member-voices-neg For many years, I boycotted Amazon Prime because of how Amazon treats its warehouse workers. But eventually I returned...
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US Attorney’s Office alleges that eBay cyberstalked and terrorized its critics
As many targets of workplace bullying can attest, some companies will engage in extraordinary, sustained measures to intimidate and retaliate against their critics. However, for many reasons, those...
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LOL: “We have ZERO TOLERANCE….”
(image courtesy of ya-webdesign.com) We see it over and again: An organization is accused of egregious instances of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, bullying at work, or similar...
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How would you feel if your boss had a betting pool on how many workers would...
We’re seeing plenty of instances of how the coronavirus pandemic is bringing out the best and the worst of us, and here’s another bellringer example of the latter: Last year, seven managers at a Tyson...
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Of coronavirus and climate change: Zooming in on the future of academic and...
We’re about to go live with the Dec. 2020 Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies workshop (https://www.humiliationstudies.org) Last May (link here), I speculated about the future of academic and...
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Is the college admissions essay the first step toward a life of posturing and...
One of my favorite journals, The Hedgehog Review, devotes the bulk of its current issue (link here) to the theme of authenticity. I concede that among the pieces, Joseph E. Davis’s “How to Be...
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Cruelty goes digital: Layoffs by email
(image courtesy of freepik.com) It was probably inevitable: As an ultimate reminder to workers that they are quickly disposable and easily disposed of, some companies are resorting to standardized...
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Fear at work
The Economist news magazine recently reviewed a new book by historian Robert Peckham, Fear: An Alternative History of the World (2023) (link here; registration necessary), and I couldn’t help but...
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