dimanche 26 janvier 2014

Tactics Used For Workplace Bullying

By Chris McArdle


Workplace bullying is a social verbal, physical and non verbal abuse from an employer or another person in the working environment. It can happen in any type of organization including of organization including offices shops, restaurants and government organization. It can happen to all types of employees including volunteers, student interns and permanent employees. Some of the workplace tormenting may be criminal offenses and are addressed in court of law.

Some of the tactics used include physical abuse, humiliation and non verbal behavior among others. This type of aggression is categorized in different ways. Any type of aggression from the management to the employees is termed as organizational bullying. It can also be an aggressive behavior from one employee to another.

Attacks on people personal life by ridiculing and gossiping them. It can also be in form of physical violence. This type of unethical behavior is caused by different thing between and among people in a working environment. One of the major causes of bullying is misunderstanding between people. This is usually associated with rivalry.

This is either conducted through protocols or programs that are organized regularly by the management. For one to say that they have been bullied they should ensure that the activity has been repeated severally. Some people may mistake other isolated behaviors for bullying. In order to differentiate types of unethical behaviors in an organization, the management groups the behaviors and ensures that everyone gets to understand the categories.

There are five major categories of unethical behavior in any organization. One of them is the threat to professional status. This includes belittling of ideas and public professional humiliation. It also involves intimidation of competence procedure. This is termed as an unreasonable behavior that is usually associated with humiliation and arrogance.

Another type is the threat to personal standing. This is whereby someone undermines the integrity of another. Insults and inappropriate jokes are also grouped in this type of behavior. When people criticize and call others names this is seen as a threat to ones personal standing.

This is an aggressive behavior that affects employees. People that are tormented spend most of their time in offices than they do with their families may also cause traumatic and stress disorders in employees. Other problems caused by workplace bullying are depression, financial problems caused by absences and medication cost among others. People that are commonly affected by this type of behavior are single mothers. This is because of increased responsibilities.




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