Dr. Myron Anderson, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Summer Seminar: Multicultural Education and Anti-Bullying Strategies, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

1. Bullying Verses
?

3. Tough Boss
Challenges employees to think
beyond their current capabilities,
to go beyond what they thought
they could do.
(womenofhr.com/bully-boss-or-tough-boss.com)

4. Harassment
The act of systematic and/or
continued unwanted and annoying
actions of one party or a group,
including threats and demands.
The purposes may vary, including racial prejudice, personal malice, an attempt to
force someone to quit a job or grant sexual favors, apply illegal pressure to collect
a bill, or merely gain sadistic pleasure from making someone fearful or anxious.
(legal-dictionary.com)

5. Discrimination
Unequal treatment of persons,
for a reason which has nothing to
do with legal rights or ability.
Federal and state laws prohibit discrimination in employment, availability of housing, rates of
pay, right to promotion, educational opportunity, civil rights, and use of facilities based on
race, nationality, creed, color, age, sex, or sexual orientation.
(legal-dictionary.com)

6. Group Activity

8. Bullying v. Tough Boss
Harassment
Discrimination
1. Identify 3 Characteristics
1. Identify 3 Opposing Characteristics
2. Why
What's the Difference?

9. Clear an direct in
their decisions
Examples
Inconsistent in their
decisions
Tough Boss verse Bullying
Discrimination verses
Harassment verses Bullying
Bullying
Targets a person
because of their
race
Targets a person
because of their
abilities
Judges someone
because of their
race
Judges someone
because of their
characteristics

10. 1. Identify 3
Characteristics
1. Identify 3
Opposing
Characteristics
2. Why

11. Group Activity

12. • Decisive
• Appreciation of short, medium and
long term needs, goals and strategy
• Accepts responsibility
• Shares credit
• Acknowledges failings
• Learns from experience and applies
knowledge gained from experience
• Goal is to improve business,
communication, language and
interpersonal skills
• Consistent
Tough Boss v. Bullying
Tough Management Bullying
• Random, Impulsive
• Rigidly short term
• Abdicates responsibility
• Plagiarizes, takes all the credit
• Denies failings, always blames others
• Has a learning blindness, cannot
apply knowledge gained from
experience
• Using knowledge gained to be
devious, manipulative, and how to
better evade accountability
• Inconsistent, always critical, singles
people out, shows favoritism

13. • Fair, treats all equally
• Respectful and considerate
• Seeks and retains people more
knowledgeable and experienced
than self
• Values others
• Includes everyone
• Leads by example
• Truthful
• Confident
• Behaviorally mature
• Has difficult conversations
• Addresses poor performance
immediately
Tough Boss v. Bullying
Tough Boss Bullying
• Disrespectful and inconsiderate
• Unable to value, constantly devalues
others
• Includes and excludes people
selectively
• Dominates, sets a poor example
• Economical, uses distortion and
fabrication

14. Harassment v. Bullying
Harassment Bullying
• Has a strong physical component, i.e.
contact and touch in all its forms,
intrusion into personal space, possessions,
damage to possessions including a
person's work, etc.
• Tends to focus on the individual because
of what they are (female, black, disabled,
etc.)
• Harassment is usually linked to sex, race,
prejudice, discrimination, etc.
• Harassment may consist of a single
incident or a few incidents or many
incidents
• The person who is being harassed knows
almost raight away they are being
harassed
• Harassment is often domination for
superiority
• The harasser often lacks self-discipline
• The harasser often has specific
inadequacies, i.e. sexual
• Almost exclusively psychological
• Anyone will do, especially if they are
competent, popular and vulnerable
• Sex, race and gender play little part;
it's usually discrimination on the basis
of competence
• Rarely a single incident and tends to be
an accumulation of many small incidents,
each of which, when taken in isolation
and out of context, seems trivial
• The person being bullied may not realize
they are being bullied for weeks or
months - until there's a moment of
enlightenment
• Bullying is for control of threat (of
exposure of the bully's own inadequacy)
• The bully is driven by envy (of abilities)
and jealousy (of relationships)
• The bully is inadequate in all areas of
interpersonal and behavioral skills

15. Harassment v. Bullying
Harassment Bullying
• Few people recognize bullying
• Workplace bullying tends to fixate on
trivial criticisms and false allegations of
underperformance; offensive words
rarely appear, although swear words may
be used when there are no witnesses
• Phase 1 of bullying is control and
subjugation; when this fails, phase 2 is
elimination of the target
• Often the harassment is for peer
approval, bravado, macho image etc.
• The harasser often perceives their
target as easy, albeit sometimes a
challenge
• The focus is on competence (envy) and
popularity (jealousy)
• The bullying takes place mostly at work
• Everyone can recognize harassment,
especially if there's an assault,
indecent assault or sexual assault
• Harassment often reveals itself
through use of recognized offensive
vocabulary
• There's often an element of possession,
i.e. stalking
• Tends to be secret behind closed doors
with no witnesses
• The harassment almost always has a
strong clear focus (i.e. sex, race,
disability)
• Harassment takes place both in and out
of work

16. Discrimination v. Bullying
Discrimination Bullying
• Judging somebody by their race,
ethnicity, color, religion, age, gender,
disability or sexual orientation
• Making a decision that has an
adverse effect on a person due to
race, color, religion, age, gender,
disability or sexual orientation
• Taking negative actions toward
someone because of their attributes,
i.e. pregnancy, disability, etc.
• Treats a person poorly because of
their characteristics
• Decide not to make a workplace
accommodation due to your disability
(i.e. wheelchair access to office)
• The judgment rests on power and
control of an individual, typically
not race, ethnicity, color, religion,
age, gender, disability or sexual
orientation
• Taking negative actions towards a
person based on weakness
• Tends to target people who most
likely will not take action towards
them
• Taking negative actions towards a
person because they are different
then them
• Competence is a factor on
targeting the victim