Bullying at Work
No commentsBeing bullied in the workplace can be very traumatic. It can cause depression stress and illness and it can cause emotional problems such as low self-esteem, low confidence and a lack of self respect. It can even cause self loathing. Middle management bullying is the most common. Managers are under pressure to produce results are often bullied to do so and , in turn, they may bully subordinates in order to help achieve results.
The bullying can take the form of verbal abuse, intimidation, sexual harassment, discrimination, name calling and sneering among others. Without a good anti bullying policy and a proactive bullying prevention campaign, corporate bullying will continue to thrive. 1 in 4 employees get bullied at the moment so dealing with bullying in companies has to been on a massive scale and will have to involve some major culture changes. Bullying has become institutional. We are so used to seeing it happen or experiencing bullying ourselves that it has become normal in out culture. And a culture of bullying is exactly what we have. With a bully threatening workers in order to do their tasks we often perceive this to be strong managerial skills. We see managers ‘cracking the whip’ as influential. People that get things done. The results all to often justify the means.
Bullying help for companies from a bullying expert or a bullying specialist can make significant difference. Designing good anti bullying policies and implementing anti bullying procedures in line with the policies is now essential to solve the problem and they can help to do this. Bullying training, such as assertiveness training, for employees can allow them to do some bully proofing for themselves so that the know how to react if someone tries to bully them.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 5:17 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.