Female To Female Bullying: Myth Or Reality?
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Speaker : SUSAN STRAUSS
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When : Monday, July 01, 2024
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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Susan Strauss RN Ed.D. is a national and international speaker, trainer, and consultant. Her specialty areas are harassment, discrimination and bullying; organization development, and management/leadership development. Her clients are from healthcare, education, business, law, and government organizations from both the public and private sectors. Susan conducts bullying and harassment investigations, works as an expert witness for harassment and bullying lawsuits, and coaches those managers and employees that need assistance in stopping their harassing or bullying behavior.
Dr. Strauss has authored over 30 books, book chapters, and articles, as well as written curriculum and training manuals. Susan has been featured on 20/20, CBS Evening News, and other television and radio programs as well as interviewed for newspaper and journal articles such as the Times of London, Lawyers Weekly, and Harvard Education Newsletter.
Susan has presented at international conferences in Botswana, Egypt, Thailand, Israel, Palestine, Bali, Lebanon, and the U.S., and conducted sex discrimination research in Poland. She has consulted with professionals from other countries such as Israel, England, Australia, Canada and St. Maartin. She has her masters in community health and holds a doctorate in organizational leadership.
Bullying is a learned behavior that gets fine-tuned during our school years. While men’s way of bullying is more aggressive, girls and women tend to bully using more subtle nuanced types of tactics that are relationship-based. Is female-to-female bullying an issue that deserves attention apart from general workplace bullying? Is discussing women’s hostility to women feeding into the stereotype of women’s “nasty” behavior at work? Perhaps if women are bullying other women they need to be told to “put on your big girl panties” and deal with it, as the saying goes. Do we have different expectations of women’s behavior at work than we do of men’s behavior? If so, could that be playing a role in the perception that women bully women? Do we have a responsibility, as women, to support our “sisters” at work?
Join this session by expert speaker Susan Strauss, discusses the phenomenon – or lack thereof- of women’s hostility to other women, outlines what one should do if bullied, and discusses management’s role in the prevention and intervention of the behavior.
Areas Covered
- The subtler way of bullying used by women
- Theoretical causes and contributing factors of women’s bullying
- Can women-to-women bullying be tagged as illegal harassment?
- The impact of women bullying their colleagues
- Identifying management’s role in the prevention and intervention of women’s bullying
- The steps to take if targeted by a bully
- Are women more hostile to each other than to men?
- Sexism and stereotypes in our perceptions of women and men’s bullying
- The nexus of bullying and harassment
- Impact of bullying on witnesses
- Tort Laws
- Tokenism
Course Level- Intermediate
Who Should Attend
Anyone in Management at all levels
- Human Resources Generalists
- HR Managers
- HR Directors
- VP of HR
- All HR Directors, Managers, and Generalists
- Supervisors
- Managers
- Director of Risk Management
Why Should You Attend
Some do not believe there is a difference in the ways men and women bully, and if there is, they say, “what’s the big deal?” They may be right. The research suggests, however, that the two genders do tend to bully using some different tactics. Because women’s ways of bullying are generally subtler, managers may not recognize it as bullying and ignore the behavior thereby giving tacit approval for it to continue. This leads to poor morale, lack of trust in management, poor performance, absenteeism, and turnover.
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$200.00
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