Bullying The Workplace

Bullying in the workplace has always been an issue that has not been given much importance. It is indeed a problem that should be addressed by the concerned personnel because it can result in many health and safety issues, especially when nurses are bullied at their workplace. From the beginning of times, people who are deployed at a senior post to tend to look down upon the students or new people who have just started work. Nursing is also one of the professions in which the fresh graduates or students are bullied to the extent that they feel that they would not be able to face their seniors. They start developing inferiority complex and are unable to perform their job well. When they are taunted by their seniors and preceptors about their lack of knowledge and experience, their confidence is shattered. This implies that when they are handling a case, they are not confident if they are doing the right thing or not. In this tussle, they sometimes do not even perform the task they were really good at and put the health and safety of the patient at stake.

Chris Pontus states that Lateral violence, bullying and workplace harassment often are one and the same. Defining the different aspects of lateral violence Pontus explains that there are three categories which make up lateral violence: harassment, discrimination and bullying. Harassment is a form of unwelcome conduct ranging from unwanted comments to physical violence (Pontus, 2011). Discrimination includes a person being treated inversely and less favorably based on gender, race, sexual orientation or capability. Finally, workplace bullying is categorized as many events of unwarrantable actions of an individual or group geared to a person or group over a long period. To expand, Pontus explains that bullying behaviors are persistent, offensive,

 Article one” "Individual and situational predictors of the workplace bullying: why do perpetrators engage in the harassment of others" (Hauge, Skogstad & Einarsen, 2009). Authors: Lars Johan Hauge, Anders Skogstad, & Stale Einarsen. Article two:  " does trait anger, trait anxiety, or organisational position moderate the relationship between

Bullying, harassment and discrimination amount to core issues in all workplaces and are an integral connection between employee relations and effective human resource management. Bullying and harassment occurs when an employee is mistreated and victimized by fellow workers or supervisors through repeated negative instances of offensive slurs, detrimental feedback, verbal abuse and intended isolation through social exclusion. These instances correlate to “low satisfaction with leadership, work control, social climate, and particularly the experience of role conflict” (Einarsen et al. 1994). Not all departments within

Mathis, Jackson & Valentine (2013) provide examples of workplace violence categories as physical assault, threats, harassment, intimidation, and bullying. These acts are deemed to be violent in nature, can be directed towards someone at work or on duty and can be instigated by a criminal or a customer. In my company, I have yet to witness or bear part to any form of physical assault, threats, harassment, or physical intimidation. I view bullying as the most prevalent workplace violence in my organization. I define bullying as an intentional violent act either physical or non-physical, against a person or a group of persons which is intended to cause intimidation, mental duress, physical harm or to demean another person or group of persons.

What is workplace bullying? Workplace bullying is considered to be social, verbal, physical, psychological, and cyber abuse by your employer, manager, supervisor, a work colleague or a group of work colleagues. Workplace bullying can happen at anywhere and at any time, and the person or group as well. Do not need to be in higher job position such as managers and supervisors. It can come from co-workers

Bullying behaviors impact teams, departments, and as a result affect agencies and corporations as a whole. How do co-workers respond to the bullying of their teammates? Leadership plays a critical role in the health of organizations. If leaders are engaging in bullying behaviors, how does that affect the workplace? What policies could be revised or implemented to make the workplace less hostile for workers?

Bullying is at an all-time high in the United States. Macintosh states, “Workplace bullying is widespread and there is a concern that it may be increasing.” (p.666). This behavior is a problem that can be found in households, big businesses, and in our educational system nationwide. Specifically, bulling in the workplace becoming more widespread. This is a critical review of an article that addresses bullying in the workplace. Before we examine this article in detail a person must understand the concept of workplace bulling. According to Macintosh, “Work place bulling is defined broadly as reported unwanted psychological, physical, or sexual abuse, or harassment” (p.666). The author does an exceptional job outlining the problem, explaining

This case study will focus on the psychological and physical effects of being bullied in the workplace both in person and through social media outlets. Until recently, I feel like workplace bullying has been seen as playful teasing. But people are now realizing that bullying is bullying and it is unacceptable regardless of one’s age or occupational position. This bullying ruins people’s lives and tears their confidence down. People are driven to quit their jobs or even go as far as committing suicide because of this harassment. Workers’ health is not the only thing affected by workplace bullying. Companies suffer because their employees are preoccupied with other worries and this causes them to be less productive.

Forty-nine percent of all American workers have reported that they have been affected by workplace bullying, whether they were the target or the witness (2). The nursing profession is no exception to this startling statistic. Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) and The Joint Commission (TJC) have addressed the need for a positive work environment that is “free of abusive behavior, such as bullying, hostility, abuse of authority, and reprisal for identifying abuse in the workplace” (8). Bullying in nursing is thought to begin during undergraduate education and extend into the workplace after graduation (3), with new nurses being suffering the most (6). With the prevalence of those who have been bullied in the workplace, it is safe to say that a nurse or nursing student will be the target of this type of violence at some point in their career (3). The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of workplace bullying specific to nursing, effective and ineffective management strategies to confront this problem, and the potential barriers to addressing the situation.

As per WBI U.s. Workplace Bullying Survey "Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-hurting abuse of one or more persons (the focuses) by one or more culprits." It is abusive conduct that is: Threatening, embarrassing, or scaring, or work obstruction — harm — which keeps work from

The research project that I have chosen is Workplace bullying of social workers written by Kate van Heugten. I chose this topic because I felt that it spoke more to me. I have never personally been bullied but I have witnessed it happen. Not in a dramatic way just small children antics. At that time I wasn’t aware that, it was bullying. While reading an article about this topic, it made me realise how bullying is so common, even in professional environments. The topic itself grasped my interest instantly. I felt that this topic would be a real eye opener to how severe and common this topic is. This research project will give awareness to social work practitioners of the kind of bullying issues that happen every day in their work place. This could be a chance for social work organisations to create support services for social workers within their organisation.

Bullying, what is it and who are the people that are motivated in the community to employ strategies that embodies this heinous crime? The definition of Bullying, as taken straight from the web reads, “the use of superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants”. I would like to take the concept of Bullying and look at the types of strategies that people employ with intent, or innocently, to bully others. I will treat the outcomes associated with this crime, that include not only the demoralization of the person or people involved in our social network prone society, but my treatment will also include other horrible outcomes like drug abuse, the destruction of the self-esteem of individuals that often leads to destruction of individuals and even suicide. I will achieve this by basing my treatment on the horrific treatment of Amanda Todd, her treatment ultimately led to her suicide on October 10, 2012.

In today’s competitive world where every single person is trying to be better than his/her peers or subordinates, the instances of workplace aggression leading to workplace bullying and workplace harassment are very common. Work organizations are like any other social setting where scarce resources, competition, time constraints to complete goals, personality of individuals often leads to workplace bullying and workplace harassment. Bullying and harassment are situations where a worker or supervisor is systematically mistreated and victimized by fellow workers or supervisors through repeated negative acts like insulting remarks and ridicule, verbal abuse, offensive teasing, isolation and social exclusion, or the constant degrading of ones’s work and efforts (Einarsen, 1994). The literature has shown that employees who are victims of workplace bullying and harassment show more negative well-being (anxiety, depression, irritation, psychosomatic complaints) and tend to be neurotic and less agreeable, conscientious and extravert. Edelmann and Woodall (1997) found some initial effects of bullying include: a loss of confidence (reported by 44.2 per cent); physical ailments (38.4 per cent); and stress (37.2 per cent). Most long-term effects included physical or psychological ill-health (53.5 per cent), inability to cope (21.5 per cent), and low self-esteem (19.8 per cent). Furthermore a lot of research has gone into workplace bullying and harassment, their effects on

The authors as such conduct research on several sources of information and reveal several definition components of workplace bullying. They also point out to the differences in the