The Causes Of 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.

False accusation is one of the tactics that is commonly used by people. Most of the workers tend to accuse others on things that they have not done. They report errors that have not occurred just to bring people down. Another behavior is intimidating others non-verbally. This is whereby people do not involve you in any activities that take place in an organization. You can see it by yourself no one tells you that you are unwanted.

It is the work of the management to give strict rules on such behavior. They do this by writing a list of all behaviors that are unacceptable in a given organization. They also give the actions that will be taken if a certain behavior occurs in the organization. Majority of organizations couch employees on bullying behaviors.

People that want managerial seats in an organization may tend to hate each other, this leads to doing anything that will bring down your rival. People do a lot of things that can humiliate their core workers. Another cause of this type of behavior is dictatorship. Managers that feel that they own the organization tend to dictate all activities.

People can also encourage others to turn against the person being tormented. They do this by creating a bad image of the person to other people. One way that people use to encourage others is befriending them and isolating the tormented individual. There are people that torment others by publicly displaying gross and undignified behavior.

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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