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:
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
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 whistleblowers:
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 whistleblowers:
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?
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?
