Monday, March 30, 2026

An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying

 


The book An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying examines organizational culture and wellness in the context of bully triads. The book includes ideas for assessing and improving organizational culture. The book addresses possible approaches to improve workplace culture and corporate wellness and to create bullying-free environments.

An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying is a bullying prevention guide for the workplace or educational setting; however, the book does not address the bully who encourages self-harm or brings weapons into the workplace or classroom because the legal system has provided a transparent correctional system for dealing with the extreme violence and danger that these people present. Instead, the book offers suggestions for leaders and educators to deactivate the tendency to create havoc and mayhem in work and learning environments by addressing the unmet needs of the workplace and school community. In addition, the book An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying may help leaders and educators assess work and learning environments to determine whether specific trends and patterns within the organization contribute to and promote future bullying among employee and student populations. -Dr. Stewart


Monday, March 2, 2026

Getting Your Point Across

 Cross-culturally, getting an important point across without being seen as aggressive or a bully can be complicated. Often, the point of interest involves cherished personal beliefs and values and may seem indisputable from this perspective, which creates bias and a host of formal and informal fallacies. To get your point across without being seen as the aggressive communicator or a bully requires a substantial effort for the compassionate, effective communicator. For example, compassionate and effective communication involves gathering valid and reliable information on the subject, exploring alternatives, understanding the person receiving the communication's culture and sociopolitical and socioeconomic environment, and having a theory of mind that allows you to accept that others may think and feel differently about the subject. -Dr. Debra Stewart

An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying

 

Saturday, July 27, 2024

Survivors of Workplace Bullying

 


Candidates with short work histories or failure to develop within the organization may indicate that a person has been a member of a bully triad in the past. Remember, a bully triad consists of the bully, the victim, and the bystander. It is essential that, during the screening process, questions be presented to explore the candidate’s opinions, ideas, or experience with workplace bullies. Often, members of previous bully triads consist of individuals who have tried to survive toxic workplaces, and bringing them into your organization may involve a time of healing so that the employee can learn to trust again and relinquish unhealthy coping mechanisms. Workplace bullying is common, and identifying elements of past triads among new employees may help managers develop orientation programs that include a triage area for support and clarification of acceptable behaviors and values.

 An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying

Friday, January 12, 2024

The Building Blocks of Gratitude

 

Escalations in Chaos and Workplace Tension

 

The workplace bully can easily be identified when there are escalations in chaos and workplace tension because bullies are often central figures who receive credit for all infamous deeds and, sometimes, heroics. Bullies harbor resources, information, and knowledge and undermine every functional process. However, workplace bullies do not suddenly emerge into existence but are fueled by imbalances in the organizational culture and slowly nurtured to take their unfair share of the workplace power.

-Dr. Debra Stewart

 pictureyourselfstronger@yahoo.com

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

123 Gratitude Prompts

 

Investing in the Failure of Others

 


 Investing in others' failures sounds odd, but it is a characteristic of bullying behavior. History is full of people who wanted others to fail for personal gain. Practices such as these indicate that the organization's emotional well-being is in trouble. A sick organization is created when the hierarchy of needs is unmet, such as when the workplace is unstable or unsafe, social needs are ignored, and a lack of respect is the norm, and when self-efficacy, fulfillment, and autonomy are missing.

  -Dr. Debra Stewart

pictureyourselfstronger@yahoo.com