Bullying in the Workplace: More Common than You Think

Bullying is found in the workplace as well. Types of workplace bullying can include: threat to professional status, threat to personal standing, isolation, overwork, and destabilisation. Questionnaires were sent to 1,580 National Health Service community trust employees and 1,100 completed surveys were recorded. Out of these, 294 employees (27%) reported being destabilised and 255 (23%) reported being isolated in the workplace (Quine 230). Destabilisation in the workplace often entails giving an employee meaningless tasks or not giving them the credit for what they have done. Withholding training or special opportunities away from an employee are types of isolationism. While being destabilised and isolated are both passive acts, they are forms of bullying. Even though bullying is considered a childish act, it occurs in adulthood, and that is

In “Phoebe Prince: Should School Bullying Be a Crime?”, an article written by journalist Jessica Bennet addresses school bullying, the outcomes and the consequences that bullies deserve or not. Above all, this article aims the spotlight on bullying, a 15-year-old who took her own life due to harassment, torment, rumors, physical threats all leading it to being bullied by well-known good students. In any case, the process of being bullied has never been taken into consideration nor importance in the school system or by society in general. “It’s even gotten better over the past decade says Dan Olweus, a leading bullying expert”. However, bullying just does not disappear, it is still an issue that humankind does not have any diligence to the cause

Bullying can produce and maintain a poisonous work environment. Nurses who bully can wear down the job satisfaction of their co workers which can result in a loss of productivity and increased absences in the workplace (Stokowski, 2010). Victims of bullying often have a feeling of impending doom and dread when they think about their upcoming work days. Each time the bullying reoccurs, the victims usually

In a health and social care setting bullying can be lead to a nurse or socialwoker e.g. who is verbal bullying an elderly patient with sexual orientation. calling them names because of their orientation sex such as stupid, smelly, you look like a girl . Or boy. This will effect the patient physical, emotionally and

The article provide five table illustrations. Table one is about the demographic characteristic of the targets of the workplace bullies. The table displays the characteristics of social workers ranging by age, gender, and demographic. Table two is about organizational settings and roles of targets. The table displayed supervisors, colleagues, subordinates, and clients were all identified as bullies. It showed that women were more than twice as likely (67%) to be identified as bullies as were men (33%). Table three is about the most troubling bullying behaviors. It showed that verbally and covertly hostile actions were the most troubling bullying behaviors in the workplace. In addition, being treated with disrespect and having work de-valued as the hardest aspects of being bullied at the workplace. Table four was the summary characteristics of bullies. The study showed the characteristic were either passive or assertive by the Coping Scale. The passive behavior had a ranging score of 24 and assertive was of 60. The median and mean scores were 42.5, and a multiple modal score. Table five was the classification of responses to coping scale as passive or assertive

This paper compares three studies on workplace bullying. The studies were conducted because workplace bullying is an epidemic that needs to be addressed and it needs to be understood to help future organizations prevent workplace bullying.

The scope and depth of the concept is vast. In addition to workplace bullying, there is school bullying, physical bullying, cyberbullying, sexual bullying, verbal bullying, and family bullying. The concept of bullying can be seen in many situations, but the use of workplace bullying is very specific to a place of employment. Furthermore, workplace bullying in nursing is seen in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other medical facilities where nursing staff may be employed. On a broader level, workplace bullying impacts healthcare professionals in general wherever they may be employed. Workplace bullying outside of healthcare and nursing is also evident, especially in fields such as business and

Bullying is a prevalent problem that has existed in the health care industry for a long time, but people did not want to talk about it and it was kept as an ugly secret. When the occurrence of misbehavior increased over time, health care providers started breaking the silence. The evidence of bullying has shown the effect on patient outcomes as well as the victims. According to studies, nurses particularly younger age females are more susceptible to bullying than any other health care workers in the industry. Workplace bullying is the repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators. Workplace bullying behaviors include verbal abuse, victimization, humiliation, being

The conclusion kind of made sense, but it did not readdress the question posed at the beginning of the study to remind the reader of what is being studied or researched. The author shared points to ponder on how to address the issue of bullying in the workplace, increasing education of the nurse managers on how to diffuse bullying, and establishing a work environment that has very low tolerance for the undesirable behaviors.

On the other side, discussed the types of workplace bullying including top-down, lateral and bottom-up. Moreover, there are different sign and symptoms of workplace bullying in nursing which are related to physiological, psychological, psychosocial and well-being. Different impact of workplace bullying on the profession of nursing for examples; increase rate of turnover, patient care errors, increase absenteeism, less work performance. Finally, concluded that bullying is not a current issue in nursing, so first requires everyone in the workplace to have a clear understanding in the workplace. There are different types of ways included in the second part of this article like- standards, legislation and case law which are very useful for prevention bullying as well as promote self-awareness, encourage employees about self-manage, interpersonal conflict, education through developing a program in which programme organizational should be apply the race principles included; recognize, assess and control the bulling in nursing workplace and lastly evaluate the measures which put on the actually working

Our workplace safety is in need of reconstruction, not because of physical, ergonomic, chemical or biological hazards but because of bullying. According to Hanley and O'Rourke (2016, p. 352) workplace bullying is a "psychological hazard" towards its victims health and undermines the "successful pursuit of corporate and employee objectives". Workplace bullying is certainly a prevalent issue that is consequential to its victims and the state of Australia's companies. Although there have been Fair Work Commision jurisdictions placed against anti-bullying (eg. January 1 2014) Hanley and O'Rourke argue that these laws are a "minimalist" solution to this anti-social epidemic. Workplace bullying with its many forms should be recognised as a criminal

Workplace bullying in nursing has determined that there are number of factors which affect the patient care, occupational stress as well as nursing staff turnover. The main focus of this research was how many nurses suffered, exposure to workplace bullying. A sample was taken from a Pacific northwest state in which identified nurses who had bullying experience in workplace. For this descriptive was recommended as a negative Acts questionnaire-revised and question was about definition which was asked from candidates, use that question which will help to find where they had been bullied. Then assessed that forty-eight percent nurses to being

I have experienced bullying at the facility I work at also. That’s sad that he did her like that where you worked. He should have been reported. I do not like bullying. I see a lot of it everywhere. People tend to try to take advantage of people that are nice. They view them as being “weak”. According to Thompson 2016, in a study it was found that more than 88% of nursing students reported experiencing bullying behaviors in the clinical environment. I saw this one girl who would pick on skinny females who were new nurses. She would come and start hitting the table where she was sitting and start yelling at skinny females. I would speak up for them because I do not tolerate bullying. They seemed like they were taking up for the bully

Fortunately, people are beginning to recognize the seriousness of bullying. The Swedish Work Environment Authority Act suggests that, “Preventative interventions should include whole community awareness campaigns about the nature of bullying and its dangers. Efforts should also be made to enhance the emotional and organizational environments in school and work settings by promoting sensitivity, mutual respect and tolerance to diversity while prohibiting bullying” (Srabstein and Leventhal, 2010). Persuasion is the key to preventing this behavior for future generations.

The objective of this study is to understand the direct relation between one of Hofstede’s (2003) four dimensions and the risk of reporting for workplace bullying in employees among various organisational culture. Culture effects on reporting of bullying incidents to management due to authoritative distance between employees and managers, and create dissatisfaction at job even after reporting (Wornham, 2003). Many studies in the area of workplace bullying has been done by researchers focusing on who reported being bullied and others who were observed bullied but, researches where victims were afraid by post