[Ailist] AI and bullying in the workplace

[Anita Vestal]

Hi Bill,
I have done some study and writing on bullying among children. Seems  
to me that adult bullies got stuck in methods that worked when they  
were younger and they never sought or needed to seek alternative  
approaches to get what they wanted. One great potential for seeing  
this paradigm differently is the "third side" as Ury calls it. He uses  
the term to refer to those may have turned a blind eye, passively  
encouraging the behaviors perhaps due to unfamiliarity with methods to  
do anything differently. However these are the very ones who have the  
potential to initiate profound changes in bullying behaviors.

William Ury of Harvard has developed materials including a powerpoint  
that can be downloaded (http://www.thirdside.org/), In addition I am  
attaching a series of articles in a newsletter dedicated to bully  
prevention from the Education Section of Assoc. for Conflict  
Resolution (my article on Mobilizing the Third Side for Bully  
Prevention is on pp. 5-6).

I hope you will share your work as it develops. It brings an awareness  
to behaviors we have accepted and allowed to come back to bite us!

Anita


Quoting Bill Hobbs <bill at billhobbs.eu>:

> I am currently researching a book on bullying in the workplace and am struck
> by the relational impact that bullying has both on the individual (target of
> the bully) and the wider group. I am interested in cases where an AI
> approach has been used to help the target of a bully. If anyone has
> experience of using AI in this area I would be very interested in hearing
> more in particular any approach that allows for a target of a bully to
> re-construct their careers and self. I would also like to hear of Bullying
> being addressed in its wider context, within the umbrella of social
> construction, where perhaps an AI approach has been used to focus on this
> aspect of organisational life through group/organisational OD interventions.
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> Many thanks
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