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Title: The Bully-Proof Workplace
Subtitle: Essential Strategies, Tips, and Scripts for Dealing with the Office Sociopath
Author: Peter J. Dean, Molly D. Shepard
Narrator: Fred Filbrich
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-15-17
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
More than one in four Americans deals with an on-the-job bully. These office sociopaths don't just make individuals miserable. Their poison spreads throughout the company, damaging overall morale, creativity, productivity, and profitability. It doesn't have to be this way.
Leading consultants Peter Dean and Molly Shepard have helped vanquish workplace bullying and now share their proven methods with you. In The Bully-Proof Workplace, they provide vital insight into the four major types of bullies:
These bullies may operate differently, but they all have one thing in common: a desperate need for control based on deep-seated fear and insecurity. This invaluable survival guide equips individuals with strategies, tips, and scripts for managing interactions with bullies. Managers learn how to identify bullying, deal with it swiftly, and introduce zero tolerance for such behavior. And executives gain the information they need to create a corporate policy regarding bullying.
We spend about 60 percent of our waking moments at work. Spending that much time under the thumb of a bully and dealing with the negative business effects of bad behavior is simply unacceptable. Whether you're a victim of bullying or a business leader tasked with building a collaborative corporate culture, The Bully-Free Workplace provides the critical insight and practical tools you need to successfully combat this ubiquitous but rarely addressed business challenge and ensure that bullies behave - or leave - so you and everyone else can get on with your work.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
I enjoyed the text, the content was very informative and useful in real time!
A logical, reasonable approach to dealing with bullies - one caveat at the end of the review
I received the book through the Vine program to do a review.
It is a very timely and useful book. Dr. Peter Dean and Molly Shepard start by making the argument about both how common and how destructive bullying is in and to our economy.
They point out that bullying tends to be more common in healthcare, public careers, and academia. Having worked for three decades in the academic, non-for-profit, and government sectors, I concur with this viewpoint. In organizations where there is no objective measure of success and performance, social dynamics often come down to 10-12 year olds on a playground, Lord of the Flies style. Bullying is a part of that unfortunate dynamic.
The authors go on to describe four kinds of bullying behaviors: belier, blocker, braggart, and brute. The belier and blocker tend to be on the passive-aggressive side while the braggart and brute are more plain aggressive.
Then the book goes on to understand how these various types of bullies operate and how to potentially minimize bullying.
The book is good. It covers gradual escalation to counter bullying from starting with data collection to ramp up to constructive confrontation and potentially reaching asking for outside help to include friends, colleagues, and senior mentors.
The one caveat I have for the book is that the book assumes that any reasonable person would want to eliminate bullying. I concur that this is a good sentiment. Unfortunately, in some organizations bullying is "baked into the DNA" of the culture.
