Workplace relationships and work related stress

Employment cases with large pay outs or headline catching behaviour are high profile, sometimes sensational. The media excitedly focus on both the amount of compensation and the inappropriate workplace behaviour. The less high profile cases, or those that don’t make it through the employment tribunal doors should not, however, be under estimated in terms of

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Workplace procedures - bullying and harassment

A recent article in WalesOnline stated Bridgend Council reported they have “robust, clear policies in place to ensure that all employees understand what is expected of them and can behave appropriately”, yet they’ve had 22 complaints of bullying since January 2009.

A policy on appropriate workplace behaviour and a procedure for dealing with breaches of this

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Prevent allegations of bullying at work

The pressure is on in today’s workplace, and the working environment can be intense and stressful – worries over job security; budget cuts; redundancies; increased workloads; competing with colleagues for the same job in a shrinking workforce and watching colleagues leave while surviving the latest redundancy programme.

Managers feel pressurised to produce

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Dealing with a difficult colleague

During my work with organisations to repair the damage caused by unhealthy conflict at work, including formal grievances and allegations of “bullying”, I was struck by how many of these situations could  easily have been avoided if the matter had been dealt with sooner.  The importance of this came up in a Guardian Careers Live

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