Workplace Bullying
Workplace bullying refers to repeated, unreasonable actions of individuals (or a group) directed towards an employee (or a group of employees), which is intended to intimidate and creates a risk to the health and safety of the employees. Workplace bullying often involves an abuse or misuse of power. Bullying includes behavior that intimidates, degrades, offends, or humiliates a worker, often in front of others. Bullying behavior creates feelings of defenselessness in the target and undermines an individual’s right to dignity at work.
Bullying at work can take many different forms – consistently unreasonable expectations from managers, destabilization, undermining integrity and confidence, false accusations, sabotage and shunning are just a few.
