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16 01, 2018

Playing Nicely In the Workplace Sandpit
Playing Nicely In the Workplace Sandpit

Playing Nicely In the Workplace Sandpit

Otti Ott2018-01-18T17:58:38+08:00January 16th, 2018|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Peer Support Products, Training & Development|

Rates of sexual assault and harassment as well as threatening or abusive conduct have been declining in the public sector. Worryingly however, reports of bullying, racism and discrimination are on the increase. The annual WA Public Sector Commission 2016/17 report revealed that 534 minor misconduct complaints were received during that year. Comprising of 969 separate allegations, 64% (621 complaints) were regarding staff behaviour with almost one third of those

Dealing with Psychopaths at Work

Otti Ott2018-01-18T18:01:02+08:00January 10th, 2018|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Psychosocial Risk Management, Training & Development, Workplace Investigation Services|

Maybe you have worked alongside them or have hired them. Perhaps you have been impressed by their drive, ambition, intelligence, and charm. We're talking about what Dr Robert Hare, pre-eminent authority on psychopaths, calls a corporate psychopath: a "nonviolent person prone to the selfish and remorseless use of others." Manipulative, ruthless, callous, often smart and charismatic, they are unable to feel empathy or guilt. Psychopaths can wreak havoc in

Mirror Mirror On the Wall

Otti Ott2018-01-18T18:41:57+08:00November 6th, 2017|HR / Psychological Consulting Services, Psychosocial Risk Management, Workplace Investigation Services|

I recently read that a particular world leader receives folders twice a day ‘full of positive news stories, tweets praising him and sometimes pictures’ of himself on TV ‘looking powerful’. It is a level of narcissism uneasily reminiscent of the evil queen in Snow White and her mirror on the wall. As I watch current developments around the world, it reminds me of an article published in the February