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    observed every day in the workplace. In fact, it’s almost hard to gather statistics, because much like traditional bullying, victims are often afraid to report their bullies. A study was conducted in the form of an online questionnaire to 3,371respondents. It showed that men, roughly 54.2%, were bullied more than the 45.8% of woman surveyed. (Forssell, R., 2016, p.5). The study also showed that 70.8% of the men and woman surveyed held a supervisory position in their workplace. (Forssell, R., 2016, p

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    Workplace bullying is a very serious act that has a negative impact on individuals and the organization as a whole. Baack (2012), describes workplace bullying as an interpersonal conflict that is a repeated mistreatment of one or more persons (ch.7, p.19). Unfortunately, despite workplace bullying being so harmful, it is often a common occurrence. In the article, Workplace Bullying: Costly and Preventable, Wiedmer (2010), cites a survey conducted in 2007 by the Workplace Bullying Institute-Zogby;

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    Workplace bullying is termed as misusing of position or power. Workplace harassment often leads to lowering work performance and increase feeling of anger, fear and powerlessness. Organisations establish policies of abuse and harassment in the workplace to prevent inappropriate behaviour and establish guidelines and procedures to stop the behaviour if it occurs (Woodrow & Guest, 2014, 38-56). Harassment becomes illegal when creating a work environment that a reasonable employee would not tolerate

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    Workplace Violence Workplace violence is the main issue in the United States expressed influencing a large number of American consistently. Working environment violence is any demonstration or danger of physical savagery, provocation, terrorizing, or other undermining problematic conduct that happens at the work site. It ranges from dangers and verbal mishandle to physical ambushes and even murder. It can influence and include workers, customers, nurses, patient, clients, and guests. Workplace violence

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    Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Does the phrase “That’s what she said.” sound familiar? The phrase is from the popular hit television series The Office. The guy behind this popular quote is none other than Dunder Mifflin’s Michael Scott. This quote is not only inappropriate but it is also a form of sexual harassment and Michael Scott is the king of sexual harassment. Unfortunately sexual harassment is a problem that is occurring in the workplace. In another popular movie, Horrible

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    THE WORKPLACE Sexual harassment is any form of unprecedented sexual conduct in which the offender uses inappropriate language and actions that humiliate the sexuality of the offended. At workplaces, sexual harassment occurs when stakeholders of an organization engage in unwelcomed conducts of sexual nature, which makes the recipients (of the conduct) intimidated and uncomfortable. As Solotoff and Kramer (2014: 67) assert, sexual harassment is a widespread practice in the American workplace, and

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    Workplace bullying is the topic of the assignment for this week. Workplace bullying occurs when someone or several people in the workplace mistreat people working around them and cause undue stress and unrest. Workplace bullies are no different from child hood bullies and they terrorize, intimidate and menace but in an adult situation. The workplace bully uses this technique as a form of intimidation. (Baack, 2012) This paper will discuss and review information regarding workplace bullying and

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    Annotated Bibliographies Heeman, V. (2007). Workplace Bullying: A Distinct, Interpersonal, and Communicative Phenomenon. Paper presented at the meeting of the National Communication Association. Bullying in the workplace is the topic that Heeman has addressed and evaluated with the aid of research from additional authors. Communication plays a major role in bullying when brought into the workplace and it can continue for extensive lengths of time if not managed and handled properly. The roles of

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    Systemic Psychodynamic Coaching in the Workplace: Workplace coaching is a term that refers to the process of equipping people in the working environment with necessary tools, opportunities, and knowledge for total development in order to enhance their effectiveness from an individual, organizational, and work perspective. Workplace coaching has emerged as a major concept in modern organizations since leaders, researchers, and organizations have identified it as a crucial competency in leadership

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    researchers, violence in the workplace consists of any act where someone is being abused, threatened, intimidated or assaulted in their place of work(Violence in The Workplace, 2017). A few examples of these would be verbal threats, harassment, verbal abuse or any physical harm to a worker. I have decided to research violence in the workplace because I feel that it is a very important subject that I myself would like to gain more knowledge on. Violence in the workplace is a great subject that I believe

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