Truth Matters: A Guide to Conducting Successful Workplace & Other Administrative Investigations

Allegations of interpersonal misconduct and abuse in workplaces and other organizations are on the rise, across industries across the country.

With the evolution of health and safety, human rights, and civil law and decisions, the impact on organizations and individuals - legally, reputationally and financially - is significant. Organizations are required by both legislation and common-law to effectively investigate and provide remedy to serious allegations of abuse, psychosocial violence, and sexual misconduct. In this book, Bob Stenhouse provides a guide to completing legally defensible investigations.

Appealing to the spirit of the law and best practices, versus the letter of the law and checklists, Bob encourages an impartial, fair, thorough, and courageous approach to the successful conclusion of a workplace and administrative investigation. In this book, Bob uses the illustration of his personal backstory of being a reluctant police whistleblower, including the subsequent fundamentally flawed investigation and discipline process he experienced. Bob's eventual redemption in the dual courts of public opinion and law, serves as the teaching foundation for the critical information needed to conduct successful administrative investigations.

Part memoir, part "how to" this book is filled with tips, best practices, illustrative case studies, and practical application. Truth Matters serves as a beneficial guide to anyone tasked with a human resource or other administrative investigation, ensuring the process and subsequent decisions will withstand the highest level of legal scrutiny, with truth, safety, and justice prevailing.