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Diane Stafford |
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Nationally Syndicated Workplace Columnist |
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… Workplace bullying exists because business owners and top management allow it. "All workplace bullying is institutionalized abuse," he writes. Companies should have a specific line in a code of conduct -- and make sure all workers know what it says -- that prohibits bullying behaviors.
The code should state that vocal and physical intimidation of co-workers is unacceptable behavior that, if displayed repeatedly, is grounds for discipline, up to and including termination. At the same time, employees (especially supervisors) should be trained to recognize bullying behavior and know how to use alternative methods of motivation or evaluation. |
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Franke James, MFA |
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CEO WorkPolitics.com |
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In Bullying Bosses: A Survivor's Guide…(t) he main message? If you are being bullied you will most likely not be believed, and you will need to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Mueller acts as an ‘advocate’ for the abused, quickly arming them with the tools they need to defend themselves, and if push comes to shove, prove their case.
Mueller draws on his legal experience in counseling thousands of clients, to transform employees from vulnerable ‘Targets’, into confident ‘Workplace Warriors’. The book unfolds in a series of vivid anecdotes from bullied employees that aptly illustrate the many obstacles they face…
For anyone bedeviled by a bully, this will be a very useful guide on how-to-fight-back and come out ahead. One of the most valuable tools Mueller shares with the reader is the Incident Report http://bullyingbosses.com/incident.php form (downloadable at his site). Targets are instructed to methodically record and categorize the abuse on it…the process of documenting the abuse is critical to understanding it, spotting patterns, and devising methods to combat it. Like Sergeant Joe Friday from Dragnet, it asks for “Just the facts, Ma’am”… |
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David L. Johnson, PhD Health Psychologist |
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Formal Book Reviewer |
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Senior Author of “Stop Smoking and Chewing Tobacco” |
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Robert Mueller, the author of Bullying Bosses: A Survivor’s Guide, is an experienced lawyer. Today he counsels clients. The book repeats a cautionary theme that bullying bosses calculate, select, and plan attacks on vulnerable employee targets. When outrageous attacks occur, targeted employees are so shocked, confused, humiliated, and threatened, they process the attacks internally. They respond as if they had really done something wrong. Bullying bosses have vulnerabilities…
The author integrates positive attributes for employee survival into a proactive model of “Workplace Warrior” Mueller asserts the acceptance and use of his model can strengthen anti-bullying employee behavior, as well as limit demoralizing effects of victimization. I highly recommend this book to anyone experiencing bullying behavior and/or anyone who seeks to help empower workers in the attainment of safer and healthier workplace environments. |
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Sam Vaknin, PhD |
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Author of “Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" |
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Thrilling book (and I use the word "thrilling" judiciously)...It is rare that a book of reference and self-help should read like an edge-of-the-seat John Grisham thriller. But this significant contribution to the study of bullying in the workplace often does.
I recommend the book to anyone who has ever been involved in on-the-job harassment, stalking, and bullying…A gem. |
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Diana Ayling |
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Senior Lecturer in Law |
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Unitec, New Zealand |
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This “survivor guide” is the result of many years of research, advocacy and exploration by Mueller of scenarios targets face when subject to attacks by bullying bosses.
Previous books have explored the concept of workplace bullying, …however none have prepared the target for winning the battle with the bullying boss like “Bullying Bosses”. The detail in this book is so good, that I am reminded of General Norman Schwarzkopf’s preparations for the (first) Gulf War.
This book …is the best in its category and likely to be for sometime to come…For those of you who are not or have not been targets of the bullying bosses, purchase it anyway, for as the Romans said, “Praemontius praemunitus”, to be forewarned is to be forearmed
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