Posted on 08/22/2008 10:52:58 AM PDT by flowerplough
It's a classic case of mean-girl syndrome, where cliques are formed and isolation sets in for anyone not included in the popular circle. But this is not the playground--it's the workplace.
According to a study conducted last year by the Workplace Bullying Institute and Zogby International, an astounding 71 percent of office conflict cases are women bullying other women.
"I'm not at all surprised by the findings," says David Thomas, professor of business administration and chairman of the Organizational Behavior department at Harvard Business School. "If you think about the kind of bullying that goes on between [women], which is often more psychological, more subtle, more in the form of social putdowns, that's the kind of bullying that happens in the workplace."
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OK, before I continue reading this article, I have to say...
the what???
“I’m not at all surprised by the findings,” says David Thomas, professor of business administration and chairman of the Organizational Behavior department at Harvard Business School.”
Professor Thomas’ days may be numbered at Harvard for this blatant display of sexism.
i really really really gotta get me some of that grant money.
but seriously is this a surprise to anyone?
Because women are physically weaker and can’t run as fast? ;)
{ducking for cover}
And here we were told that women’s problems in the workplace were due to male harrassment and “sexism”, and a work culture that doesn’t accomodate women and mother’s needs.
But instead, some of women’s biggest problems are other women????
Gee I wonder if the problems grow and multiply the more women who are in an office. It sounds like an office full of women can generate many cross currents of this bullying and resentment and competition.
How about if everyone, men and women, get back to your cubicle, treat everyone with respect, and get your work done??????
I’ve noticed that women are much tougher on women.
LOL!
I have observed that women tend to view the workplace as more of a social environment than men do. They interact more on a personal level, form more and deeper friendships, intereact with each other more outside of the workplace than men do. I suspect that the social groupings and cliques they form at work have a lot to do with this kind of behavior.
Children? Maybe.
I have talked to several women I know about this very topic, and by far they say they are much happier working in an industry that is traditionally a “man’s world” than they are when they work in an office full of women. Their typical comment - “women are soooo catty”.
Not surprising. In general, women used to be warm, caring, nurturing. They cared more about the needs of other than about their own wants.
Not any more. Today, too many members of my gender are self-centered narcissists.
Sounds like harassment and empire building. Guess the problem wasn’t strictly “the boys club” after all.
(And, I am one...)
I’ve never noticed women having many problems in the workplace well nothing abnormal. I had a cool blond as a boss and she got drunk as a skunk at a client party and started hitting on everyone afterwards. lol She even licked the back of one of our young college guy’s head. If she’d been a guy she’d have been really in trouble but none of us minded. No harm no foul.
I think that is the problem with today’s workplace. Everyone is so freaking on edge. Some of my best friends were cool women who weren’t all sexually frustrated and worried about men hitting on them. I had a lady who I’d known and I was joking with some guys and she talked to my boss. I thought we were friends. I didn’t get in any trouble but it was stupid. All I’d said is that myspace had been invaded by strippers that all wanted to be your friend after she’d mentioned that she had a myspace page. I don’t know why she took it personally she was not a stripper (at least that I knew of).
Talk about kook-koo and those are the ones you have to worry about. The frustrated paranoid female who thinks every guy is looking to pluck her petunia. They want to be treated like one of the boys and then when they are they get all crazy when they are. Just relax folks, be a team player, enjoy a drink, and make some cash. That is what business is all about.
I love working for a man. He has no other agenda besides getting the work done. He doesn’t want to hurt you.
A woman wants to hurt you just because she can.
(1). Do not be, by any standard construed as "better looking" than your female supervisor.
(2). Do not be, by any standard construed as "better dressed," than your female supervisor.
(3). Do not be, by any standard construed as "having a better figure," than your female supervisor, especially true if supervisor is overweight.
(4). Do not be, by any standard construed as "having a partner, having a better-looking partner, or even worse, having a more powerful partner," than your female supervisor. This effect triples if the female supervisor has no partner.
(5). Do not be, by any standard construed as heterosexual if your female supervisor is a lesbian. Double this effect if you are very feminine and she is very "masculine."
If you are inadvertently breaking any of the above rules, quit, if you can, or immediately begin dating a senior vice president or above and have the other woman fired ASAP. You can do this.
It’s all because women enjoy a complex and nuanced emotional life. They experience a rich spectrum of feelings. And they have names for them.
Men only FEEL four different ways, as far as I can tell.
HUNGRY - They want something to eat.
HORNY - They want...
PISSED OFF - They want to beat something into submission.
TIRED - They want to sleep.
‘workplace bullying’ is an attempt by liberals/lawyers to create a whole new category of lawsuit.
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