Description

• The effects of workplace bullying
• The definition of workplace bullying
• Why do people bully?
• The consequences of bullying
• The aggressive nature of bullying
• Power and control aspects of bullying
• Why managers are more often bullies
• Why bullying is sometimes hard to spot
• Prevention techniques
• The consequences of bullying

• Inappropriate language, put-downs, insults, and name-calling.
• Taunting, teasing, or making jokes.
• Sabotaging another employee's work.
• Copying, plagiarizing, or stealing work from a co-worker.
• Deliberately denying co-workers resources.
• Yelling, screaming, sarcasm, or other verbal abuse.
• Menacing a co-worker with threatening looks, gestures, and body language.
• Hazing or initiations that seek to embarrass or humiliate.
• Unreasonably creating conflict
• Refusing to work with a co-worker.
• Physically threatening, shoving, striking, or touching a co-worker.
• Gossiping or spreading rumors about co-workers.
• The planting of false information.
• Using private or confidential information to defame or destroy the reputation of a co-worker.
• Setting unrealistic standards and deadlines which are unachievable or that are arbitrarily changed without notice or reason.
• Assigning excessive, unreasonable, and unending amounts of work.
• Giving unjustly negative performance appraisals.
• Taking unwarranted disciplinary action.
• Singling out or treating someone differently
• Holding a subordinate employee to different standards than his or her peers.
• Excessive, unneeded, and negative micromanagement.

• Employee turnover
• Lost productivity
• Low company-wide morale
• Destroys creativity
• Cost to employee health
• Destroys organizational reputation