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We Have Received A Complaint (US Edition)

The Fraught World of Workplace Justice

by (author) Matt Malone

Publisher
Sutherland House Books
Initial publish date
Apr 2024
Category
Workplace Culture, Labor & Employment, Workplace Harassment & Discrimination, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Business Ethics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781990823626
    Publish Date
    Apr 2024
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

We used to go to court to enforce our rights. Now we do it at the office.

Workplace investigations are everywhere. From complaints at Fox, BBC, TVO, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show to sports teams like the Seattle Mariners, the Boston Celtics, and the Dallas Mavericks, as well as Fortune 500 companies, governments, universities, and schools, seemingly every week brings a new announcement of another workplace under scrutiny.

As conflicts increase in a new era of behavioral expectations, offices are being transformed into forums of informal justice. Investigators are summoned to adjudicate and peers become witnesses in poorly understood, often opaque proceedings. The shift is fraught for all involved: complainants often feel the investigations fail to right wrongs; respondents regularly decry them as exercises in shunning; employers wonder how they fell into this role.

About the author

Matt Malone is an assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law. Prior to that, he practiced law full-time in California.

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