A management culture that prefers to deal with complaints based on how
it suits. Ignore them and let bullies thrive as long as they are
"productive" and sing along the same song. But follow them and take
actions on those that might come against people that have a problem
with, to the point that they even manufacture them in order to achieve
what they want. For all their kind words, if you go to them with a
complaint management will work behind the scenes to make sure nothing
happens - a typical tactic is to wait so long that your legal options
have been timed out. Academic management have an excuse for being
useless - they aren't trained in management and are in constant fear
from the top. But Human Resources have no excuse. They know exactly what
they are doing. Some of them are malicious and seem to take pleasure in
the pain they cause. Top management (most of them failed academics
thirsty of power they could not get through their normal work/research)
is carnivorous.
This is an institution who has an employment
lawyer from one of the most expensive legal firms in the country (the
Queen's solicitors) on retainer, working on site one day a week. And
they make full use of them. The lawyer isn't there to help Imperial
stick to the law. They are there to help them get away with flouting it.
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That sounds like a certain technical college here in Canada where I used to teach. (Even though I haven't worked there for several years, I won't mention its name. That place has a reputation of being quite vindictive.)
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