1. Bullying in a workplace
A non-physical behavior that has physical and
psychological consequences. The purpose of
bullying is to exclude or single out a person by
embarrassing, ignoring, or blaming them for an
unexplained reason.
2. Forms of Workplace Bullying
Verbal Abuse: Shouting, Arguing and Cursing
at employees.
Criticizing or blaming someone for an
unexplained reason.
Excluding employee from company seminars
and events.
Ignoring employees when they contribute at
work intentionally
3. Negative effects on employees
caused by bullying
Psychological
Employees under constant stress
Tendency to be tardy or absent at work.
Bullying affects productivity.
Continuous worrying and depression caused by stress.
Physical
High blood pressure that may cause a heart attack
Digestive upsets
Lack of sleep
4. Companies also suffer from
workplace bullying
Frequent employees change
High training costs for new employees
Low employee effectiveness due to low
motivation
Due to bullying problems in a company-hard
time to hire new employees.
Notas do Editor
Bullying in the workplace is common nowadays and a lot of employees get bullied at work in different ways.
Other forms of bullying include: humiliating individuals, joking, jeering and making fun of employees repeatedly.
Depression: clinical depression, suicidal depression or other forms of depression.
Companies who condone bullying in their community will see how hard it will be to replace those employees.