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Information and references for toxic workplaces

1.    The cost of workplace abuse to the UK economy 

Universities of Bradford, Manchester and Glamorgan research

These are the costs for 2007. The cost could well be over £20 billion by now.

A comparison: what we spend on roads, railways and the EU each year

The cost of workplace bullying in Australia

2.    How many people at work are abused?

The UK

Australia


USA

A comparison: Notifiable injuries at work in the UK

3.    Don’t call it bullying!

Who gets targeted by the workplace abusers?

4.    Who are the abusers?

The prevalence of psychopaths among us and psychopaths at work:

“Without Conscience” Robert Hare
“Snakes in Suits” Paul Babiak and Robert Hare
“Working with Monsters” John Clark
“The Wisdom of Psychopaths” Kevin Dutton
Although she uses a different label Martha Stout’s “The Sociopath Next Door” is also excellent.

Professor Clive Boddy TED talk on Corporate Psychopaths:




Others with psychopathic traits:

“Almost a Psychopath” Ronald Schouten and James Silver

Manfred FR KETS de Vries “The Psychopath in the C Suite: Redefining the SOB”

Arseholes:


“The No Asshole Rule” Robert Sutton
“Assholes: a Theory” Aaron James


5.    Abuse directed towards clients

 The 112,000 cases of care home abuse referred to the Care Quality Commission

See the Independent and Daily Mail articles on Orchid View (also mentioned below) plus BBC News

Winterbourne View

The BBC Panorama secret filming at Winterbourne View


Orchid View Independent article

Orchid View Daily Mail article

The Granary
6.    The financial cost of workplace psychopaths:

The corporate psychopath theory of the global financial crisis:

Journal of Business Ethics (2011) "The Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis" Clive R. Boddy

See also: Manfred FR KETS de Vries “The Psychopath in the C Suite: Redefining the SOB”cited above.


Clive Boddy’s corporate psychopath website:

For a full explanation of the global financial crisis and how we created a financial system open to exploitation by psychopaths see “How do we fix this mess” Robert Peston.

7.    Groups and the dark side of human nature

The pioneering psychologists that you should put into your search engine are:

Stanley Milgram – obedience to authority and the effect of stress on moral judgements

Solomon Asch – conformity

Leon Festinger – cognitive dissonance

John Darley and Bibb Latané – the bystander effect


Philip Zimbardo – groups and the psychology of evil

The work of these pioneers has been replicated and developed (and ignored!)

For a summary see: “Wilful Blindness” Margaret Heffernan

And: Zimbardo’s “The Lucifer Effect”


8.    Whistleblowers

The fate of whistleblowers: The Guardian

Channel 4 News on whistleblower
s:

The NHS whistleblower Sharmila Chawdhury’s website 

Whistleblowers in social work

Compassion in Care – Whistleblower Eileen Chubb’s website 

Raj Mattu

Lisa Martin

Paul Moore

£28 million paid in gagging orders
 
Gagging orders in the NHS £15 million payouts

9.    Trying and failing to stop workplace abuse

Strategies to stop workplace abuse. The Workplace Bullying Institute 2012 survey

What happens to targets – the Workplace Bullying Institute’s 2014 survey

Who gets targeted by the workplace abusers?

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