Importance of Workplace Bullying to Vocational Psychology

Bullying and harassment within the workplace can be attributed to a myriad of factors. The work

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

Theories help guide researchers with how they will interpret their data. Theories may lean more to one paradigm than another, however, there is one which has been labelled many things from paradigm, methodology and theory (Walsh, Holton, Bailyn, & et al., 2015). That theory is Grounded Theory. A historical account of its development, main assumptions and assessment of its value are provided. To contextualize Grounded Theory from an interdisciplinary perspective, workplace bullying in small, isolated organizations is proposed as a research topic. The merits and disadvantages of using Grounded Theory as the research method will also be discussed.

Bullying which is the intentional act to inflict harm, threaten or abuse of others, can range in many ways. Kathryn Hawkins on the article the Office Bully, outlines various issues of this concept. Kathryn states that sometimes people become overconfidence that they left bullies in their past lives maybe high school, but later found out the bullies have ultimately become their bosses. Secondly, bullying may occur when bullies wants to dominate and gain back their powers if they feel endangered. So they tend to overcome their fear by threatening others. Also Kathryn articulates that even the conditions of the workplace can cause bullies to abuse their targets and workplace bully can be difficult to deal with. Although Kathryn has suggested some solutions about these issues, the claim presented does not put up with the issues, rather an encouragement.

Workplace bullying is a big issue. It will create a lot of negative impact to the staffs and customers. The examples of workplace bullying can be sexual harassment, degrading someone, conducting the unethical behaviors and applying unprofessional conducts to the staffs and customers. The consequences caused by the workplace bullying can be as the following:

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

Unfortunately there is not only bullying in schools, there is bullying in the workplace as well. These are unacceptable behaviors that arise within a workplace situation. Bullying the workplace can take many forms and it’s not easy to always identify. The Fair Work Act 2009 made recent amendments that came into effect in January 2014 to define workplace bullying as occurring when an individual; group of individuals; repeatedly behaves unreasonably towards the worker, group of workers of which the worker is a member; and the behavior creates a risk to health and safety (Le Mire & Owens, 2014). This definition focuses on three main elements of bullying behavior, it is repeated, unreasonable, and creates a risk to health and safety. All three elements must be satisfied in order for bullying at the workplace to be found. Bullying behaviors could be things that are victimizing, humiliating, intimidating or threatening, but it is not limited to just those behaviors.

Workplace bullying is a widespread issue in which people need to be educated on in order to put an end to it. Its causes are complex and multi-faceted and yet preventable. Workplace bullying puts unnecessary strain on the employees It is the employer and organizations responsibility to provide a bully free environment for their employees. Employees should have the right to feel safe in their work environment and be free from workplace bullying. Employers need to be held accountable and have a plan in place to protect the employees from this type of violence. Unfortunately that is not always the case, in some instances the employer is the one doing the bullying. Workplace bullying carries many definitions in which will be

Workplace harassment and bullying occurs when an employee subjects another employee to degrading behaviour, whether verbal abuse and threats or actual physical violence. It is an inappropriate expression of power that affects workers and their productivity in an unfavourable way (Spry, 1998). Management, and other types of employees, who occupy high-status roles sometimes believe that harassing their subordinates is within their rights and make demands of the lower-status employees (Langton, Robbins, Judge, 2010, p. 313).

Results showed 48% of subjects had been bullied in the workplace and 35% reported experiencing bullying on a weekly basis while 28% reported experiencing it daily. On the research questionnaire, the most common variable involved being ignored or excluded in the workplace. One strength of this study was the categorization of the 22 negative acts on the questionnaire. A limitation of this study was the small number of subjects; of 10,000 registered nurses invited to participate, only 95 nurses participated

Workplace bullying has become one of the most prevalent issues in today’s organizations. While there are many different forms of workplace bullying, some studies reveal that almost half of American workers have either experience the effects of being bullied or witness a co-worker being bullied. In this assignment, one will explore various statistical reports on workplace bullying and identify the extent of the psychological problem that it can have on employees.

Sometimes the bully believes his or her actions are justified as a means of climbing the corporate ladder. When the word “bully” is mentioned, many people think of an aggressive, mean person. However, in my experience and from a managerial/supervisory standpoint, most workplace bullies are actually non-aggressive (from a physical standpoint) but they are extremely aggressive from a non-physical standpoint. For example, the cunning workplace bully employs methods of deception, misrepresentation of information and intentional misdirection of blame onto another person. These types of deliberate acts, which are completed in an attempt to gain power, respect or influence, in this student’s opinion can be equal to the more common form of physical bullying. Hananel (2013) reports that non-physical on-the-job bullying can be seen as a supervisor’s verbal abuse or threats, cruel comments or relentless teasing by a co-worker. Hananel (2013) also indicates that employers list the majority of bullying incidents as verbal abuse, such as shouting, swearing and name-calling, along with malicious gossip, rumors and

Heeman, V. (2007). Workplace Bullying: A Distinct, Interpersonal, and Communicative Phenomenon. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association.

Workplace bullying is something that is a big contemporary problem, that I feel is often pushed under the rug and not discussed. Workplace bullying can effect a person’s health, and it can also affect their role as it relates to their workplace performance. I would like to discuss workplace bullying to help those that has been through this or is currently going through this. I want to provide different steps workers can take if they feel they are being bullied in their workplace. According to the Workplace Bullying Institute (2015) workplace bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators. Bullying in the workplace is one of the most contemporary problems I feel that we are faced with today. According to the Waitt Institute (2016) Workplace Bullying is an Epidemic and 37% of American workers, an estimated 54 million people, have been bullied at work.