Workplace Harassment and Bullying Experience

On April 22, 2008, BPW Saskatoon Club Inc. hosted an evening of information, panel presentations, and roundtable discussion on workplace harassment and bullying experience.

Due to the high degree of interest, a written form of the majority of the presentations from that evening, plus related relevant documentation, are available below.

Psychological Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace - This document presents an informative overview of workplace bullying, and how it plays out in the workplace, complete with costs to employers. These are the speaker's notes.

Links on bullying - These are links for access to further information on workplace bullying, some of which provided source material for the overview document above.

Speakers - We had four speakers relating their personal experiences of bullying. We thank them for being willing to share.

Bullying Experience, 1st Speaker

Bullying Experience, 2nd Speaker

Bullying Experience, 3rd Speaker

Bully 101, 4th Speaker

Workplace Harassment and Bullying Experience Workshop Notes - As part of the process, we ended our evening with some brainstorming in small groups around the areas of action, prevention and advocacy.

Workplace Harassment and Violence Report - This is an extensive report written out of Ontario. It's goal was to identify the range of workplace harassment, to examine the effects of these experiences, to make recommendations for reducing the risk of harassment, and to outline the support and legal remedies available to women if they are harassed.

6^th International Conference on Workplace Bullying – Sharing our Knowledge – The 2008 conference in Montreal seeks to provide a leading edge overview of our current knowledge of bullying in the workplace. Registration information is at www.bullying2008.uqam.ca. The conference will be simultaneously translated, English to French and French to English.

Intensive Remedial Identity Work: Responses to Workplace Bullying Trauma and Stigmatization – This study, by Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik, investigates the phenomenon of intensive remedial identity work by exploring responses to the trauma and stigma of adult bullying at work.

Bullied Workers Fighting Back – This is Bronwyn Eyre’s article, originally appearing in the Wednesday, April 30, 2008 edition of the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.