Last updated on October 2, 2018
Workplace Bullying: Causes, Effects, and Prevention
A recent article discusses and reviews causes and effects of workplace bullying.
Bullying is a form of aggression that can occur anywhere. Bullies can threaten your child at school (school bullying), abuse your teenager online (cyberbullying), or intimidate you at work (workplace bullying). A recent paper, published in Aggression and Violent Behavior, focuses on the last kind.
Authors Nielsen and Einarsen discuss the prevalence of bullying, its causes, effects, and finally, the effectiveness of available anti-bullying interventions.
The Japanese anime tackling workplace bullying
Aggretsuko, a Japanese cartoon for adults on Netflix, is currently making waves around the world. But why is it so popular with millennials?
Aggretsuko is a cartoon character created by Sanrio, the company behind the popular character Hello Kitty.
The series focuses on a red panda called Retsuko, who works in the accounting department of a trading firm in Tokyo.
Through her job, Retsuko experiences office politics, workplace bullying and gender discrimination. To deal with it, at night after work she heads to a karaoke bar and releases her frustrations by singing death metal songs.
Aggretsuko, which is short for “Aggressive Retsuko”, first appeared in a series of animated shorts produced by Japanese studio Fanworks in April 2016.
The shorts went viral after being shared on social media, and reaction to the character in the West was so positive that Netflix commissioned Fanworks to make a 10-episode season, which launched in April this year.
In August, Netflix announced that it had commissioned a second season.
Post-Kevin Spacey, Old Vic “Guardians” Fight Workplace Abuse
A year after it became an unwilling focus for Britain’s #MeToo movement, the Old Vic Theatre says it is trying to stamp out abuses of power in all workplaces.
The London theater company once led by actor Kevin Spacey said Monday that 20 cultural organizations have joined it in appointing workplace “guardians,” specially trained staff who serve as a first line of defense against bullying, harassment and abuse.
It has been a year since abuse allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein spurred women around the world to organize the “Me Too” and “Time’s Up” movements, and triggered an outpouring of allegations against powerful men in entertainment, politics, publishing, academia and business.
The scandal rocked the venerable Old Vic when Academy Award-winning actor Spacey, its former artistic director, was accused of sexual misconduct by men in the United States. Police in the U.S. and in Britain are investigating several claims.
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