Penny Dick is a Professor in Organizational Psychology at University of Sheffield Management School. This talk was given on Wednesday 19th March 2014. "Lots of unpleasant experiences at work are difficult to make sense of and even more difficult to explain to other people. But what happens if you think you might be the victim of, say, bullying or sexual harassment but you are not really sure if you are such a victim and whether anyone (with power) will believe you? This talk explores the problems around the interpretation and reporting of social experiences like sexual harassment and how these problems are not adequately dealt with at the policy level." Penny She obtained her PH.D. from Sheffield University which, with her research being in social construction of gender in police work. She worked as an Occupational Psychologist in both public and private sector before taking up an academic post at the University of Teeside in 1993. Her areas of professional expertise include critical incident stress debriefing, stress counselling, stress management, assessment and selection, management development, and training. Penny’s research interests are all in the area of critical management, which means that she looks at the politics of work and work experiences and exposes how taken-for-granted ideas influence what happens in organizations, particularly in relation to inequalities and the distribution of power and resources.
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