Comments for Healingtheworkplace's Weblog http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com Blogging about the workplace in the twenty-first century Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Psychologically Healthy Workplaces Are Vital! by David Yamada http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/psychologically-healthy-workplaces-are-vital/#comment-416 David Yamada Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:08:10 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=674#comment-416 Lesley, bravo for raising this topic. Earlier this year, I used my blog to post eight questions that help to reveal the presence or absence of a psychologically healthy workplace. It also led to a very collegial exchange with David Ballard of the APA. http://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/whats-a-psychologically-healthy-workplace/ Best, David Yamada Lesley, bravo for raising this topic. Earlier this year, I used my blog to post eight questions that help to reveal the presence or absence of a psychologically healthy workplace. It also led to a very collegial exchange with David Ballard of the APA.

http://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/whats-a-psychologically-healthy-workplace/

Best, David Yamada

]]> Comment on Building Trust in the Workplace by joanne http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/building-trust-in-the-workplace/#comment-412 joanne Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:22:45 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-412 good work i love it good work i love it

]]> Comment on Stop Bullying NOW! by Lilia, CWL Student http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/stop-bullying-now/#comment-410 Lilia, CWL Student Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:55:02 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=629#comment-410 Hi Lesley, Interesting article and very timely as well. As you well said it in the article and also what I've learned from my own reading, it appears most employers are not willing to deal with bullying at work place issue. Here's a link that reflects on similar studies in US. http://www.bullyfreeworkplace.org/id32.html There's a non-profit agency in BC called No Bully for Me and is ran by two enthusiasts Karen and Stephen who created a website designated to fighting bullying. http://www.nobullyforme.org/interviews.shtml They also provide workshops and research on the subject. Apparently, they were swamped with the responses from the readers, mostly victims of bullying in the workplace. Bullying has a profound effect on those who were attacked and many readers were seeking counselling or groups for support. Unfortunately, the agency is unable to provide such personal support at the current time. Still, recognizing the issue is the first step toward the healing! Thank you for the article! Hi Lesley,
Interesting article and very timely as well. As you well said it in the article and also what I’ve learned from my own reading, it appears most employers are not willing to deal with bullying at work place issue. Here’s a link that reflects on similar studies in US.

http://www.bullyfreeworkplace.org/id32.html

There’s a non-profit agency in BC called No Bully for Me and is ran by two enthusiasts Karen and Stephen who created a website designated to fighting bullying.

http://www.nobullyforme.org/interviews.shtml

They also provide workshops and research on the subject. Apparently, they were swamped with the responses from the readers, mostly victims of bullying in the workplace. Bullying has a profound effect on those who were attacked and many readers were seeking counselling or groups for support. Unfortunately, the agency is unable to provide such personal support at the current time. Still, recognizing the issue is the first step toward the healing!

Thank you for the article!

]]> Comment on eSlavery 2.0 by Karel http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/eslavery-20/#comment-396 Karel Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:24:11 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-396 Odesk is the 21st century version of a slave shop. When I first started freelance writing, I looked for jobs on there. Sorry, but making $2 an hour is not worth my time. I could make more money standing on the corner begging for change. Odesk is the 21st century version of a slave shop. When I first started freelance writing, I looked for jobs on there. Sorry, but making $2 an hour is not worth my time. I could make more money standing on the corner begging for change.

]]> Comment on eSlavery 2.0 by healingtheworkplace http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/eslavery-20/#comment-393 healingtheworkplace Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:31:07 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-393 Hi Vinod, you raise some very important points about odesk and the internet in general. I love your examples. Thanks Lesley Hi Vinod, you raise some very important points about odesk and the internet in general. I love your examples.
Thanks
Lesley

]]> Comment on eSlavery 2.0 by Vinod http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/eslavery-20/#comment-387 Vinod Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:00:22 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-387 Here is what worries me about the program.... Though this cannot usually happen if due diligence is taken, but if a person is absent minded or does not have enough technical skill to rectify, how he/she could get into trouble. Imagine a person has installed odesk and is working and when he is about to give suspend option on his odesk, due to some interruption he forgets. Assuming he has suspended recording, he ends up opening his exclusive private photos or he opens up a page containing all his bank login information and password. The data is recorded and gets uploaded. By the time the person would realize what has happened it would have a 1000 copies all over the net if it is a private like that of Paris Hilton or he would be bankrupt before he tries to change his passwords. I do not think this is completely safe from privacy point of view. Also if people are not technically skilled enough to remove content or to able to figure out how to do it, such people should not be doing this at all. This does remind of a girl who wrote about her previous night experience on her boyfriend's facebook without realizing that it was publicly readable. Soon the internet was filled screenshots with her profile photo and what she wrote... What will happen when you working on odesk and your girlfriends comes and you both forget to suspend odesk... may be you might have switched it off 1000 times in a year, but if you missed just once... your employer will possibly offer you a better job ... but possible a different type of job... Also if any virus attack can over your PC, then will this recording system be a headache... ? Anyway... I am not sure about how the software works and risks... what I feel is when a giant company like microsoft has 1000 bugs in their software and keep sending updates and service packs to set it right... I wonder if any bugs in odesk could hamper my privacy and ruin my life.... I do not say dont join odesk or use it... but I just am saying... do it keeping in mind the risks involved with regard to privacy and only if you know what you are doing and how you have to do... Here is what worries me about the program….

Though this cannot usually happen if due diligence is taken, but if a person is absent minded or does not have enough technical skill to rectify, how he/she could get into trouble.

Imagine a person has installed odesk and is working and when he is about to give suspend option on his odesk, due to some interruption he forgets. Assuming he has suspended recording, he ends up opening his exclusive private photos or he opens up a page containing all his bank login information and password. The data is recorded and gets uploaded. By the time the person would realize what has happened it would have a 1000 copies all over the net if it is a private like that of Paris Hilton or he would be bankrupt before he tries to change his passwords.

I do not think this is completely safe from privacy point of view. Also if people are not technically skilled enough to remove content or to able to figure out how to do it, such people should not be doing this at all.

This does remind of a girl who wrote about her previous night experience on her boyfriend’s facebook without realizing that it was publicly readable. Soon the internet was filled screenshots with her profile photo and what she wrote…

What will happen when you working on odesk and your girlfriends comes and you both forget to suspend odesk… may be you might have switched it off 1000 times in a year, but if you missed just once… your employer will possibly offer you a better job … but possible a different type of job…

Also if any virus attack can over your PC, then will this recording system be a headache… ?

Anyway… I am not sure about how the software works and risks… what I feel is when a giant company like microsoft has 1000 bugs in their software and keep sending updates and service packs to set it right… I wonder if any bugs in odesk could hamper my privacy and ruin my life….

I do not say dont join odesk or use it… but I just am saying… do it keeping in mind the risks involved with regard to privacy and only if you know what you are doing and how you have to do…

]]> Comment on eSlavery 2.0 by oDesk « The Freelanza Blog http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/eslavery-20/#comment-380 oDesk « The Freelanza Blog Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:31:59 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-380 [...] authority wields power for its own sake over its constituents. There is also a suggestion of “eSlavery 2.0” in Lesley Taylor’s blog, [...] [...] authority wields power for its own sake over its constituents. There is also a suggestion of “eSlavery 2.0” in Lesley Taylor’s blog, [...]

]]> Comment on Corporate Abuse: Destroying Soul in the Workplace by Jaishree Saxena http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/corporate-abuse-destroying-soul-in-the-workplace/#comment-375 Jaishree Saxena Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:58:52 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-375 Hi, I'm being subjected to : # harassment # systematic humiliation # arbitrary manipulation # demotion without cause # withholding of resources # surveillance by my company and I agree with the definitions of abuse in your article. Hi,
I’m being subjected to :
# harassment
# systematic humiliation
# arbitrary manipulation
# demotion without cause
# withholding of resources
# surveillance
by my company and I agree with the definitions of abuse in your article.

]]> Comment on Driving Fear Out of the Workplace by Queercents » Blog Archive » Is Fear in the Workplace Holding You Hostage? http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/driving-fear-out-of-the-workplace-2/#comment-364 Queercents » Blog Archive » Is Fear in the Workplace Holding You Hostage? Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:30:55 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=268#comment-364 [...] is toxic when not used to inform and channel your choices from solid ground. “Driving Fear Out of the Workplace” talks about how fear prevents people from doing their best work. Earlier in the the last century W. [...] [...] is toxic when not used to inform and channel your choices from solid ground. “Driving Fear Out of the Workplace” talks about how fear prevents people from doing their best work. Earlier in the the last century W. [...]

]]> Comment on Corporate Abuse: Destroying Soul in the Workplace by Stephan Borau http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/corporate-abuse-destroying-soul-in-the-workplace/#comment-356 Stephan Borau Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:02:26 +0000 http://healingtheworkplace.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-356 Very good definition of corporate abuse. Large organizations are by their very nature abusive -- by their very structure. When they get to be a certain size, they become bureaucratic and the abuse is sytematized. E.F. Schumacher, Marx and Engels, Adam Smith and other great thinkers have said very clearly that our work and workplaces have a significant effect on us, on our bodies and minds and souls. One of the biggest factors that distorts our souls (and bodies -- we don't work in factories, but now we have carpal tunnel syndrome) is the infrastructure, the technology, the "modes of production" that we labour under in our organizations. We can change the laws, tax systems, policies and procedures, etc. but the technologies that underlie our organizations and our workplaces -- these are the foundation of what is abusive, damaging, soul-destroying. Scaling down our techologies and processes, to make them more human-sized rather than making them as large as possible -- that is what is needed. Bad management and bad leadership also suffer from the inhumane technologies and means of production that all of us suffer from in organizations that have more than 100 people or so. Imagination, creativity, passion all come from the soul. Organizations that abuse individuals will necessarily diminish these gifts. Unfortunately, the modern organization is mainly concerned about it's needs and cares little about the well-being of the most important part -- it's employees. In Canada, there is a growing attention on mental health in the workplace (especially depression, but also psychological harassment adn the like). That will hopefully contribute to a growing awareness of how our organizations contribute to making us unhealthy. Very good definition of corporate abuse. Large organizations are by their very nature abusive — by their very structure. When they get to be a certain size, they become bureaucratic and the abuse is sytematized.

E.F. Schumacher, Marx and Engels, Adam Smith and other great thinkers have said very clearly that our work and workplaces have a significant effect on us, on our bodies and minds and souls.

One of the biggest factors that distorts our souls (and bodies — we don’t work in factories, but now we have carpal tunnel syndrome) is the infrastructure, the technology, the “modes of production” that we labour under in our organizations.

We can change the laws, tax systems, policies and procedures, etc. but the technologies that underlie our organizations and our workplaces — these are the foundation of what is abusive, damaging, soul-destroying.

Scaling down our techologies and processes, to make them more human-sized rather than making them as large as possible — that is what is needed. Bad management and bad leadership also suffer from the inhumane technologies and means of production that all of us suffer from in organizations that have more than 100 people or so.

Imagination, creativity, passion all come from the soul. Organizations that abuse individuals will necessarily diminish these gifts. Unfortunately, the modern organization is mainly concerned about it’s needs and cares little about the well-being of the most important part — it’s employees.

In Canada, there is a growing attention on mental health in the workplace (especially depression, but also psychological harassment adn the like). That will hopefully contribute to a growing awareness of how our organizations contribute to making us unhealthy.

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