Selasa, 21 Januari 2014

Tactics Used For Workplace Bullying

By Chris McArdle


There are a lot of ethics in every working environment. This ethics are well followed by people that work for a given organization. Some employees have a tendency of using aggressive behavior against others. This is behavior is referred to as workplace bullying. It can include several tactics that makes an individual uncomfortable in the place of work.

Some of the tactics used include physical abuse, humiliation and non verbal behavior among others. This type of aggression is categorized in different ways. Any type of aggression from the management to the employees is termed as organizational bullying. It can also be an aggressive behavior from one employee to another.

It can also be a form of discounting. This happens mostly when you are in meeting and other social events. People that bully you will always go against your opinions. They disagree with your ideas using abusive language and do anything to prove that you are not fit in the organization. People also tend to discredit others. Discrediting occurs whereby people show disregarded quality of completed work despite lack of evidence.

This is either conducted through protocols or programs that are organized regularly by the management. For one to say that they have been bullied they should ensure that the activity has been repeated severally. Some people may mistake other isolated behaviors for bullying. In order to differentiate types of unethical behaviors in an organization, the management groups the behaviors and ensures that everyone gets to understand the categories.

People can also encourage others to turn against the person being tormented. They do this by creating a bad image of the person to other people. One way that people use to encourage others is befriending them and isolating the tormented individual. There are people that torment others by publicly displaying gross and undignified behavior.

There are organizations that discriminate people against color, gender and religion among others. Other factors that contribute to bullying are relationships between employees. Workers that have strong relationships may be envied by those that do not have close ties. Changes in the organizational levels may also contribute to a decline in morale of employees.

In some organization people tend to prevent others from accessing certain opportunities. This is referred to as organizational isolation involves with holding some information so that some employees do not get to access it. Isolation can be both physical and social. Social isolation involves ignoring people in meetings and other social events in an organization. Some people overwork others. This includes getting undue pressure and working with no deadlines fixed. It may also include unnecessary disruptions . Another form of workplace bullying is destabilization.




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