Earlier this year while reviewing early results of my Leaving the Low-Morale Experience Organization: Treatment During Resignation Periods Data Collection Project, several qualitative data from respondents reminded me of the role of narcissism in workplace harm – and even further, I wondered “can organizations be narcissistic???” Yes. Yes, they can. When Tracy L. Pizzi (co-collaborator […]
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This is the third part of a three-part briefing of the Leaving the Low Morale Workplace: Treatment During Resignation Periods ongoing Data Collection Project. Part 1 shared demographic and established abuse markers leading up to the resignation; Part 2 continues quantitative reporting of events that precipitated and which occurred during the resignation period. This final part
I’m the guest on Episode 4 of the new podcast, “Surviving the Stacks,” hosted by Dr. Beth Wahler and Dr. Jane Garner, both researchers and consultants working with libraries through social work and library practice and education lenses, respectively. In my conversation with them, we discuss my low-morale experience work, including insights on organizational culture,
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Early this month I collaborated with the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI)’s Professional Development Alliance and led an online session of The Renewals Colloquium I’m sharing some data collected during the event, as well as attendee feedback shared after the 90-minute event, which had over 200 registrants and an over 50%
Late last month, Hurricane Helene caused unprecedented – and in some areas, unexpected – devastation. At press time, places in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, upstate South Carolina, and Western North Carolina remain without power, potable water, medicines and more as linepersons and other relief workers organize search and rescues, restore electricity, distribute aid, and more. Even
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Part 2 of this inaugural report offers more quantitative data from 80 respondents sharing their experience of how they were treated after tendering their resignation from an organization where they experienced abuse and neglect – with particular focus on perceptions of treatment during the resignation period. Part 1 offers demographic information and initial quantitative data,
…[The dean] definitely had specific, like superficial reasons why she didn’t like people that didn’t necessarily seem to me to have anything to do with the job – like, how people dressed or how they wore their hair, or you know, whether they had a little extra weight on them or not. You know, it
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