About Us
Established in 2020
The necessity to establish the Institute is borne-out by the failure of the South African Government to recognise workplace bullying as an occupational health hazard.
- Support:
- To assist organisations in putting in place effective policies that promote an anti-bullying stance in the workplace as well as mechanisms to deal decisively with instances of workplace bullying
- To help Organised Labour define ways in which they can better protect their members against workplace bullies
- To offer support to targets of workplace bullying in exploring the options available to them, and how they might constructively challenge bully behaviours when they occur
- Training activities:
- To develop a toolkit of shared resources to upskill managers with essential management practices founded on respect for human and worker rights.
- To provide training materials to empower witnesses to, and bystanders of workplace bullying to intervene constructively.
- Advocacy:
- To lobby the South African Government to put in place legislation that will criminalise acts of bullying in the workplace.
Mission
To prevent, mitigate and assist where workplace bullying is ongoing or has occurred, and help individuals cope with the aftermath of having been bullied at work
Vision
To create South African workplaces that are free of psychological and emotional workplace hazards