How to deal with workplace bullying - Resource centre - Employment news & views - Career FAQs

How to deal with workplace bullying - Resource centre - Employment news & views - Career FAQs
What is bullying?
Bullying can come in many forms but can generally be defined as repeated unreasonable behaviour directed towards a worker or a group of workers that creates a risk to health and safety. Whether intended or not, bullying is an OHS hazard.
Bullying behaviour can be direct and can run the gamut from verbal abuse and putting someone down to spreading rumours or innuendo about someone, or interfering with someone’s personal property or work equipment.
It can also be indirect and includes behaviours such as unjustified criticism or complaints, deliberately excluding someone from workplace activities, deliberately denying access to information or other resources, withholding information that is vital for effective work performance, setting tasks that are unreasonably above or below a worker’s ability, deliberately changing work arrangements, such as rosters and leave, to inconvenience a particular worker or workers, setting timelines that are very difficult to achieve, and excessive scrutiny at work.
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Bullied individuals can be physically or psychologically damaged ...
What can you do if the majority of your employees/colleagues decide to bully one person?
Can you afford to loose all of them?
Do you move the victim, ignore it, pretend is not happening, blame the victim?
The power of the bullies in the workplace can not be underestimated, the victim often resigns, is fired or endures it.
Bullying should be taken serious and addressed by schools, the workplace, media and society than the world will be a better place to live in.