Workplace Bullying And The Workplace

Bullying in the workplace has always been an issue that has not been given much importance. It is indeed a problem that should be addressed by the concerned personnel because it can result in many health and safety issues, especially when nurses are bullied at their workplace. From the beginning of times, people who are deployed at a senior post to tend to look down upon the students or new people who have just started work. Nursing is also one of the professions in which the fresh graduates or students are bullied to the extent that they feel that they would not be able to face their seniors. They start developing inferiority complex and are unable to perform their job well. When they are taunted by their seniors and preceptors about their lack of knowledge and experience, their confidence is shattered. This implies that when they are handling a case, they are not confident if they are doing the right thing or not. In this tussle, they sometimes do not even perform the task they were really good at and put the health and safety of the patient at stake.

Workplace bullying is a growing problem in the American workplace and the Nursing Profession no exception. Addressing workplace bullying and its impact on the nursing profession is paramount to upholding patient safety and decreasing nursing attrition rates. Defining the problem is the first step in addressing it. In the past, workplace bullying was referred to as “Nurses eating their young.” There are many names for the various levels of workplace bullying like horizontal and lateral violence, hostility, mobbing, and verbal abuse. Bullying actions can take place overtly or covertly. Nurse-to-Nurse bullying is known to occur during interaction communications and manifests by withholding information, intimidation, threats, verbalizing harsh innuendo and criticism, and undermining personal values and beliefs (Rocker, 2008). Power disparities are also a source of bullying. For example, using charge position for controlling staff assignments, reporting coworkers for perceived lack of productivity, placing others under pressure to achieve impossible deadlines, and withholding knowledge for policies and procedures (Rocker, 2008). Outright actions of yelling at coworkers and refusing to mentor new staff with their practice are also considered bullying behavior.

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.

Incivility and bullying differ in that bullying is often an individual or a group of person that is the object of ridicule. This individuals or groups are often targeted by another person or group. For example, LBTG groups are targets for being who they are or people of different faction/ethnicities can face bullying. Bullying is not limited to personal issue as bullying can be seen in the workplace. For example, derogatory comment toward an individual about their work/ability to perform his or her job is seen as workplace bullying (Walker, 2017). Bullying is considered doing psychological and physical harm; it creates a suffocating and unfriendly environment to be in (Gomez-Mejia, Balkin & Cardy, 2016). The hostile actions are seen as aggressive, manipulative and humiliating. Bullying in the workplace stunts creativity, lower productivity, creates a toxic culture and puts the company at legal risk if the bullying is not dealt with (Walker, 2017).

Hanley , Anne O'Rourke, highlights the effects of workplace bullying to be intimidating, emotionally damaging persistent interpersonal abusive behaviour directed at one or several individuals. Workplace bullying is essentially an array of anti-social behaviours practiced by an individual to intimidate their victims within their workplace "over a period of time" or routinely. Furthermore, bullying is catalysed by "internal violence", a form which can vary in meaning (Timo, Fulop and Ruthjerse (2004). Within the European Union (EU) and Australia, bullying is commonly characterised as a "lower-level" violence, whereas in the United States, terms such as harassment, mistreatment, or emotional abuse are preferred (Mayhew and Chappell 2007). Additionally, Hanley and ORourke suggest "horizontal" violence and "mobbing" (group bullying) as other forms of bullying within the workforce to explain the "hostile" and "aggressive" nature groups of individuals abuse their victims with. Hanley and O'Rourke continue that for an 'event' to be acknowledged as workplace bullying, "consensus is that a target's exposure to such behaviours must occur frequently; that the behaviour is repeated over a period of time, and that it is not a one-time/ one-off incident"(Caponecchia and Wyatt 2011; Parzefall and Salin

Adult bullying in the workplace has become quite commonplace and its consequences can be far-reaching. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 146 million Americans are employed in the United States, and an estimated 54 million of those are bullied at work (Namie, 2007). These statistics are staggering. Bullying is defined as a combination of verbal abuse and behaviors that are humiliating, threatening, or intimidating and create harm (health, social, or economic) to individuals and may interfere with their productivity at work (Namie, 2007). With a prevalence of bullying taking place in the workplace, it appears that organizations need to better provide a sense of community and psychological support to its employees to address this widespread issue. The appropriate communication within the organization can make all the difference.

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

Bullying often associated with one kid being cruel to another kid, evolved beyond the playground, and move into adulthood. Unfortunately, bullying has emerged into the workplace, aptly called workplace bullying. Bullying can happen at the same organizational rank (employee to employee) or involve hostility by a supervisor toward an employee (Baack, 2012). Conversely, workplace bullying is the repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators that includes threatening, humiliating, or intimidating behavior, work sabotage and verbal abuse (WBI, 2014). The article, Workplace Bullying: Costly and Preventable by Terry Wiedmer (2011), presents information about workplace bullying including

This essay will use Paul & Elder (2008) as a guide to give Joseph Jerdee feedback on his research plan. It will review clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and the fairness of the research plan.

This could be very devastating for someone being bullied the old nursery rhymes sticks and stones can break your bones but names and never hurt you. That is not true because names can her and insults Can hurt. And it’s sad because the elderly and the young in the mid-range of Adult calling to this range of being bullied. In the workplace is the prime opportunity to bully someone out of Job title Or even try to take someone’s job and then you do that you take someone’s livelihood and it affects not even the one you’re bullying but overall affect other people and their households. To me backbiting and bullying should be against the law I think it is a crime to literally pick on other innocent

It is said that workplace bullying in the UK and Europe is increasingly recognized as a major workplace stressor. Despite of this, it is remain problematic, among targets and within organizations. This paper reports a qualitative study explore experiences of bullying among ten British women targets, all public sector professional. Data were composed using in-depth interviews and analyzed using grounded theory methods. Finding showed that these targets struggled to identify and cope with bullying. Minimizing intrapersonal difficulties; preserving self; maintaining commitments to professional and organizational values and cultures; sickness explanations; and naming the problem are the major themes or processes that are identified from the

According to Forbes website, 75 percent of workers are affected by bullying in 2016. Many people have quitted their job because they have been bullied at their workplace. But before we begin talking about bullying in the workplace, we have to ask our self what is bullying in the workplace. According to Linda Laws, bullying in the workplace “is a term used to describe disruptive behaviors that negatively affect the collaborative working environment” (2016). This behaviors can include continuous criticism, humiliation, intimidation, negative comments or insults on a person’s work, personality, race, gender and other. In fact, bullies at the workplace practice a negative action called psychological violence. What they

This case study will focus on the psychological and physical effects of being bullied in the workplace both in person and through social media outlets. Until recently, I feel like workplace bullying has been seen as playful teasing. But people are now realizing that bullying is bullying and it is unacceptable regardless of one’s age or occupational position. This bullying ruins people’s lives and tears their confidence down. People are driven to quit their jobs or even go as far as committing suicide because of this harassment. Workers’ health is not the only thing affected by workplace bullying. Companies suffer because their employees are preoccupied with other worries and this causes them to be less productive.

Forty-nine percent of all American workers have reported that they have been affected by workplace bullying, whether they were the target or the witness (2). The nursing profession is no exception to this startling statistic. Both the American Nurses Association (ANA) and The Joint Commission (TJC) have addressed the need for a positive work environment that is “free of abusive behavior, such as bullying, hostility, abuse of authority, and reprisal for identifying abuse in the workplace” (8). Bullying in nursing is thought to begin during undergraduate education and extend into the workplace after graduation (3), with new nurses being suffering the most (6). With the prevalence of those who have been bullied in the workplace, it is safe to say that a nurse or nursing student will be the target of this type of violence at some point in their career (3). The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of workplace bullying specific to nursing, effective and ineffective management strategies to confront this problem, and the potential barriers to addressing the situation.

Workplace bullying is common and it is also illegal. Workplace bullying is often described as a behavior that is directed towards an employee or group of employees that is repeated and unwelcome and that a reasonable person having regard to all circumstances would consider being offensive and intimidating. However a conflict is not regarded at workplace bullying if it occurs one time.