The Bully-Free Workplace Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes From Killing Your Organization

The solution to bullying in the workplace Here's the simple truth: businesses must end bullying to protect the bottom line. Continuing abuse on the job only leads to self-defeating and, ultimately, self-destructive organizational dynamics. Offering a proprietary Blueprint program to prevent and correct abuse, this book cuts through the silence and denial surrounding workplace bullying and replaces it with effective steps to create a respectful and productive work environment. The practical orientation gives you specific tools for all leaders and groups involved to make challenging conventional wisdom easier to transform your organization's culture into one free of bullying. Justifies action against bullying for bottom-line fiscal rewards, productivity, employee health, talent retention, and positioning as an employer of choice Authors are pioneering experts and internationally recognized leaders in workplace bullying; their previous book, The Bully at Work, helped define the field This clear and accessible guide describes exactly what to do and what pitfalls and resistance to anticipate.

Gary Namie, PhD, is the senior consultant at Work Doctor Inc., a firm established in 1985 and now specializing in workplace bullying. He is a "recovering academic" with extensive experience in teaching university graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology and management. He was also a corporate manager for two regional hospital systems and served as the expert witness in the nation's first "bullying" trial in Indiana, a verdict upheld by the state supreme court in 2008.

Ruth F. Namie, PhD, is a founding consultant for Work Doctor Inc. and was training director for Sheraton Hotels before her clinical training led to helping chemically dependent individuals and families. Ruth's personal experience was the impetus for the workplace bullying movement in the United States. She has since become an expert on the devastating effects of bullying on targeted workers. Her humanizing contributions to the Namie Blueprint are what distinguish it from traditional business solutions to violence problems at work.