7.4 Discussion: What should happen next?
Winifred Athembo; Brianna Doyle; Nikhil Garg; Richa Kabaria; Sarah Kulewksa; Celine Wai Shan Li; Deirdre Maultsaid; Simrenprit Parmar; and Lesli Sangha
What should Dani, the employee, do?
- Try to befriend an employee who appears to be respectful?
- Talk to William, the engineer?
- Report the bullying to Feng, the assistant manager?
- Keep his head down and keep working through the bullying?
- Try to talk to the bullies?
- Bring some Honduran food to work to share?
- Ask to be reassigned to a different place on the production line?
- Other ideas?
What should the bystander employee and engineer, William, do?
- Ignore the problem?
- Provide Dani with informal help?
- Ask Dani questions about his life to get to know him?
- Model friendly behaviour by greeting everyone by name and frequently thanking them?
- Other ideas?
What should the assistant manager, Feng, do?
- Discount the problem of bullying?
- Pull Dani aside for a conversation to confirm what is happening?
- Assign a formal mentor to Dani?
- Track down the bullies and give them a warning?
- Give a speech to all the staff to ask them to be sensitive about what they say?
- Walk the floor more often and deliberately praise everyone?
- Ask upper management to implement diversity training for all current employees?
- Hold mandatory anti-harassment courses?
- Create fun events to lighten the mood and create a friendly atmosphere?
- Other ideas?
