Life at the Sharp End
Life at the Sharp end is a podcast full of insights and interviews to help people who want to do their best at work.
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19 • Investigating senior executives - ethical challenges for the internal and external investigator (opens the original)
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When workplace misconduct allegations are made, it often falls to an investigator to conduct a fair, impartial and independent process to establish what’s happened. The way an investigation is conducted is critical - not just for the parties involved, but for the wider trust and confidence that people have in an organisational culture that says it’s safe to come forward if you’ve been mistreated. HR practitioners, Professional Standards Units, Complaints teams and the investigators themselves ar
18 • Workplace scapegoating - a systemic response to cultural challenge and change (opens the original)
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Scapegoating is an equal opportunity form of harmful workplace behaviour, because anyone can find themselves being made the workplace scapegoat. A phenomenon associated with workplace bullying, scapegoating takes place at a systemic level - described by Dr Nathalie Marthinek as akin to an “organisation’s immune response” to challenge, questioning and unwanted cultural change. Nathalie writes extensively about workplace power dynamics and she’s an expert on how unhealthy behaviours like scapegoat
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