Mt Lawley Professional Centre
in conjunction with
Sally Jetson and Associates Pty Ltd

Managing and Preventing Workplace Bullying

Tuesday 26 September 2006 (8.45am-12.30)

Registration: $200 inc gst

(includes free parking, generous morning tea, course materials, certificate)

Please enrol early as numbers are limited.

Download registration form here.

This 1/2 day workshop is based on the highly successful workshops delivered by SJA and made available to public sector managers and practitioners in August and October 2004 by RiskCover WA.
One hundred and forty people attended both workshops and participated in case study exercises which resulted in an excellent strategy document - Bullying Management and Prevention Strategies.

BULLYING MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION STRATEGIES
can be downloaded here:


In this half-day workshop, you will develop a powerful insight into workplace bullying, learn to identify bullying and take measures to manage and prevent it it. This workshop is pitched at a practical level that everyone can relate to and understand.

In some workplaces bullying behaviours pass as acceptable management practice. People refer to this as a culture of bullying. In other situations bullying behaviour is influenced by situational factors where those who engage in bully behaviours exercise power to control situations or people. For those bullied, most experience a rapid deterioration in their situation when the matter is complained about. In 75% of cases, targets had to leave their jobs in order for the bullying to go away, many of these as the victims of secondary bullying such as further victimisation following reporting the matter or poorly managed grievance resolution procedures.

Snapshot

- Bullying is four times more prevalent than sexual harassment and at least 10% of the workforce are bullied at any one time.
- One in two employees has been bullied at work during their working lives.
- Recent Australian research has identified employees in the public sector are at an increased risk of being bullied.
- Risk Cover in Western Australia estimates workplace bullying is responsible for 50% of stress related illness in the public sector.
- Psychological injuries are up to eight times more expensive to settle than physical injuries and take three times as long (18mths cf 3).
- One in thirty employees will engage in serial bullying.
- Seventy to eighty percent of Australians who bully are in positions of authority.
- Seventy percent of bullying is from male to female.
- Seventy-five percent of those bullied will leave their job either directly or through the workers compensation system.
- Entering the organisation's grievance procedure to resolve bullying increases the likelihood of negative outcomes for the victim.
- Females are more likely to be targeted by both male and female bullies.
- Over half of the complaints of bullying made by WA public sector employees claiming bullying about matters that are not bullying.
- Preliminary investigation indicates most of those that were not bullying were reasonable management or performance management actions, work-related conflict, responses to workplace change. A small proportion of employees made misconstrued or malicious complaints to seek redress against a supervisor.
- Application of conflict resulution and problem solving skills by the victim to the bully were unsuccessful in 83% of cases and successful in 8%. Continued application of skills including dialogue, reasoning, civil converstions results in creased victimistion and negative personal outcomes for victims.
- Two thirds of reports of bullying made to the responsible manager are about matters that the manager is already aware of.

 

With 20 years of training experience, we ensure that while you learn about these important topics,
you will have an enjoyable and fulfilling learning experience.

Workshop Facilitator : Sally Jetson
Venue: Mt. Lawley Professional Centre, 99 Central Avenue, Mt. Lawley

Registration forms available www.jetson.net.au
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Services and Training:
Bullying
Bullying Awareness Training
EEO Training
Harassment
Sexual Harassment
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Grievance Management
Grievance Officer Training
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Mediation
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Ph: (618) 9370 4014 Fax (618) 9370 1722
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PO Box 243 Mt Lawley Western Australia 6929
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Bullying, Harassment, Mediation, EEO, Investigation Training, Contact Officer Training, Grievance Officer Training and Workplace Conflict and Behaviour Services in Perth Western Australia