For example,
Bullying at the University of Newcastle (Australia)
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“Systemic bullying, hazing and abuse generally are identified with poor, weak or toxic organizational cultures. Cultures that are toxic have stated ethical values that are espoused but not employed, and other non-ethical values which are operational, dominant, but unstated.
Such cultures thrive when good people are silent, silenced, or pushed out; when bad apples are vocal, retained, promoted, and empowered; and when the neutral majority remain silent in order to survive. Those who are most successful in such a toxic culture are those who have adapted to it, or adopted it as their own”. (McKay, Arnold, Fratzl & Thomas, 2008)

Sunday, September 11, 2011
Academia versus Codes of Ethics?
For example,
myself and three other asian students were eating in the modern language staffroom. then this while male came to tell us we shouldn't be there because we were students, we shouldn't use the microwave to heat up our meals. we think he is a lecturer in the department and we see him sometimes. we were angry and upset because we pay so much fees every year. the room is always empty. we don't think some of the lecturers like us. it's very hard to find a place to heat up our lunch and the food in the shops is so expensive for us.
ReplyDeleteyeah, my friends and i had the same experience at the modern language department. we were treated like thieves when we tried to heat up our meals in their microwave oven.
ReplyDeleteAll I can see where I sit in colleagues jostling for positions at the cost of their own integrity (do they actually have any?!), getting rid of anyone who's a professional threat to them so they can get a fast promotion. Ethical behavior is the last thing on their minds.
ReplyDeleteThe real problem and danger of the place is the complicity and active participation of many of the ordinary folks in the bullying, which is wide spread. From secretaries to low-level operatives to senior students. They have proved to be very effective instruments of bullying and they in turn have been handsomely rewarded by the bullies and some become bullies themselves. This has helped to create this shocking moral decay of the place.
ReplyDeleteIt's not uncommon for research assistants to pen the articles/chapters, but have their names as the last authors of these creations. Is this ethical?
ReplyDeleteOne friend of mine recently resisted this and fell out of favour and very possibly his further employment and source of income with a CI.
ReplyDeleteIs the deliberate hiring of husband and wife into the same unit/division/school ethical? Why is it so wide spread at the UoN? In many other universities in the country it is not allowed.
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