How can workplace bullying occur?

Answer 1

• Bullying at work is generally verbal comments that mentally damage the worker and the worker may become afraid of losing their job; feel intimidated; degraded and remain silent often causing them not to produce the good quality of work they are generally capable of. Constant bullying at work can make the victim feel isolated and in some cases the victim may be so depressed they may take more time off work because they are actually going through physical symptoms of depression; upset stomach's; aches and pains. Bullying is the workplace is often described as 'assertion of power through aggression.' Bullying at work is very common and needs to be rectified by reporting it to management and if they so choose not to do anything about it then the victim can report it or even sue a company for allowing the harassment.

Answer 2

Workplace bullying is when a person or people in a workplace treat another worker unfairly. It can use many different tactics including abuse and humiliation, often in very cunning ways, often using the rules and traditions of the workplace to conceal their bullying.

Most countries and states now have laws about safe workplaces, which include being safe physically and psychologically for the workers, so people being bullied are now able to stand up for their rights by going to management and even to the police and to the courts of the country.

The Law Society of New South Wales, Australia has offered the following definition of bullying:

Unreasonable and inappropriate workplace behaviour includes bullying, which comprises behaviour which intimidates, offends, degrades, insults or humiliates an employee possibly in front of co-workers, clients or customers and which includes physical or psychological behaviour.