I, Monster: Positive Ways of Working with Challenging Teens Through Understanding the Adolescent Within Us

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Forming a union is a federally protected activity, so you are prohibited from sanctioning your employees in any way for their efforts to organize. In accordance with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), most private sector employees are guaranteed the right to: Regardless of unionization status, a growing number of job seekers want to work for employers that take corporate accountability and social and environmental responsibility seriously. What Is a Closed Shop, Open Shop, and Right-to-Work State? Prouty G (2007) The ‘hallucination as the unconscious self’. In: Worsley R, Joseph S (eds) Person centred practice: case studies in positive psychology. PCCS Books, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, pp 169–183 Commit to policies that reflect your employees’ values, especially in areas like worker safety, environmental impact, workplace safety, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Beowulf, as a written source appears at a time where both pagan religions and Christianity intersect. This means that elements from both cultures are contained in the manuscript.

A workplace where all non-management employees must become dues-paying union members is referred to as a “closed shop.” In an “open shop,” employees have the option to join the union or not. The model presented in this paper is underpinned by the idea that humans have a tendency towards sense making and ‘processing’ of experience into full awareness that is advantageous to their evolutionary survival. Warner ( 2005) applies Tooby and Cosmides ( 1992) evolutionary perspective to understand our drive towards experiential processing and our tendency to experience psychological distress when this is inhibited. Developing a complex and nuanced understanding of our physical and social environment through a process of sense-making is an adaptation of some evolutionary advantage, to escape predators and remain within the beneficial environment of our social grouping. I extend this to an experiential-processing understanding of post-traumatic stress, noting that trauma presents us with experience so overwhelming that it can severely inhibit our capacity for processing (see also Hamilton, 2013). If capacity for processing is impaired, this in itself may become a source of psychological distress (Warner, 2005). Traumatic events can shatter our assumptions about self and world, presenting a need for personal sense-making and meaning making, culturally, psychologically, emotionally and existentially. Processing traumatic experience into awareness, while initially distressing, tends to reduce psychological distress and lessen trauma-related symptoms. This process is evident in trauma-informed therapy, where clients attach a coherent narrative to their trauma experience, processing it emotionally and psychologically, while learning to understand and manage associated intrusive psychological, emotional and physical affective states within a supportive therapeutic relationship. Hamilton J (2013) Processing trauma: a case study: a psychosocial perspective. Dissertation, University of Nottingham. If you come into conflict with a colleague for personal or professional reasons, it can sour the working relationship you once had. Try to seek a resolution by talking to them about it, preferably out of the earshot of others so that no one is embarrassed.van der Kolk B (2014) The body keeps the score: mind, brain and body in the transformation of trauma. Penguin van der Kolk BA (1989) The compulsion to repeat the trauma: re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism. Psychiatr Clin N Am 12(2):389–411 Kozlowska K, Hanney L (2001) An art therapy group for children traumatized by parental violence and separation. Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry 6(1):49–78

Jung CG (1991) The archetypes and the collective unconscious. In: Read H, Fordham M, Adler G, Mcguire W (eds) The collected works of CG Jung, vol 9 Part 1, 2nd edn. Routledge, London What defines a monster, and why? Lorna Webb has been exploring the famous old English text, Beowulf, and discussing the representation of a monstrous character in this Halloween-themed blog post! Introduction Grievances are time-consuming, undermine management, and can even lead to strikes or demands to renegotiate the current contract. To avoid grievances: With horror you begin to picture a David Brent style team building exercise as distressed workers mind-map strategies for dealing with these semi-reformed control freaks.Mellinkoff, R., 1979. Cain’s monstrous progeny in “Beowulf”: part 1, Noachic tradition. Anglo- Saxon England (8) 143-162. Janoff-Bulman R (1985) The aftermath of victimisation: rebuilding shattered assumptions. In: Figley CR (ed) Trauma and its wake, vol 1. Brunner/Mazel, New York

Your department heads will need guidance when transitioning from non-union to union management practices. For example, it’s essential that all supervisors know when they need to have a union rep present for an interaction with an employee to avoid costly grievances. How Should I Handle Grievances? You are legally required to negotiate with the bargaining unit, but you are not required to make concessions. If you believe negotiations have broken down, you can declare an impasse and ask that the NLRB come in to moderate negotiations.

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If your company is located in a “right to work” state, then you will automatically have an open shop. In many right-to-work states, unions have to expend their resources to protect and promote the interests of non-union workers even if they do not pay dues. What Is the Role of HR When Working With Unions? Here he combines pseudo-science, relentless jargon and banal management conceptualising to bring you Working with Monsters. The book has an admirable purpose - intending to show readers how to identify and protect themselves from mentally unstable colleagues. But the writing is flavourless, repetitive and reading it is a lesson in drudgery. Staying positive even when there is a disagreement will stand you in great stead. Many conflicting positions in the workplace will seem much less important in a month or two. By keeping positive, you are going to be in much better shape for any future conflicts which might come up in the future. Employees may find it difficult to have necessary one-on-one conversations with managers or HR, even when it involves extremely private matters. When a manager resolves a difference of opinion between two or more members of their team about a professional matter, accept their decision. Even if you think your boss has made a wrong call, it is their judgement and they will have to stand by it.

Janoff-Bulman R (1989) Assumptive worlds and the stress of traumatic events: Applications of the schema construct. Soc Cogn 7:113–136FORMER English rugby coach Clive Woodward may have been some type of psychopath. Unfortunately to find out which type may involve reading this book. Rather than adopting an adversarial approach to working with unions on contract talks, consider employing interest-based negotiating, which entails trying to understand what the other side wants and why they want it. They then try to find solutions that can accomplish both sides’ goals. Working With Unions Can Be Complicated. Get All Your Management and Hiring Questions Answered Godden, M. and Lapidge, M., 2013. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge University Press. Legal Disclaimer: This article is not intended as a substitute for professional legal advice. Always seek the advice of an attorney regarding any legal questions you may have. Related Content