Kathryn Hawkins's 'The Office Bully'

Bullying is a form of repetitive proactive aggression in which the bullying is unprovoked and the bully initiates the bullying behaviour. (Dodge and Cole – 1987)

The article provide five table illustrations. Table one is about the demographic characteristic of the targets of the workplace bullies. The table displays the characteristics of social workers ranging by age, gender, and demographic. Table two is about organizational settings and roles of targets. The table displayed supervisors, colleagues, subordinates, and clients were all identified as bullies. It showed that women were more than twice as likely (67%) to be identified as bullies as were men (33%). Table three is about the most troubling bullying behaviors. It showed that verbally and covertly hostile actions were the most troubling bullying behaviors in the workplace. In addition, being treated with disrespect and having work de-valued as the hardest aspects of being bullied at the workplace. Table four was the summary characteristics of bullies. The study showed the characteristic were either passive or assertive by the Coping Scale. The passive behavior had a ranging score of 24 and assertive was of 60. The median and mean scores were 42.5, and a multiple modal score. Table five was the classification of responses to coping scale as passive or assertive

This paper compares three studies on workplace bullying. The studies were conducted because workplace bullying is an epidemic that needs to be addressed and it needs to be understood to help future organizations prevent workplace bullying.

Workplace bullying is a widespread issue in which people need to be educated on in order to put an end to it. Its causes are complex and multi-faceted and yet preventable. Workplace bullying puts unnecessary strain on the employees It is the employer and organizations responsibility to provide a bully free environment for their employees. Employees should have the right to feel safe in their work environment and be free from workplace bullying. Employers need to be held accountable and have a plan in place to protect the employees from this type of violence. Unfortunately that is not always the case, in some instances the employer is the one doing the bullying. Workplace bullying carries many definitions in which will be

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

An important descriptor of bullying is that it occurs repeatedly. There are many types of bullying whether it be physical or verbal, including gossiping and targeting in jokes, subjugating others to an inferior position, denying people from social groups, insulting, expressing derisive facial expressions, putting blame on that certain individual, being more closely scrutinized and unnecessarily criticized. Problems with bullying is that in the workplace this usually decreases the productivity and could lead to unnecessary resignations, which could cost the company even more money to find another person to fill that position. It’s not just work that suffers, the human body also does, as bullying also leads to emotion and physical problems. The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries found that these problems include high stress, financial problems, lower self-esteem, and sleep and digestion irregularities. To deal with bullying, workplaces should be strict in regards to dealing with bullying. This means that they should make it clear that bullying will not be tolerated and remind the workers that bullying hurts the business. In addition, in certain cases, you should confront the bully and tell them to stop, as this is sometimes enough to stop them, though you have to be sure that there is no danger in proceeding. In addition, if you happen to be a bystander, you should stand up, though this could be difficult to

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 the impact on the victims and the organization. This paper will also provide firsthand accounts of workplace bullying and how the account related to the article this week. Finally, recommendation will be given of techniques from the article that the organization should use to deter and eliminate workplace bullying.

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

When looking, at what makes a bully and what makes a victim finding the actions and events that make these labels fit to an individual is a process Bullying can come in several different forms, it can be a power imbalance that is created between two individuals the victim and the aggressor or the bully, this power imbalance is real or supposed (Olweus, 1993). According to research done by Olweus, “A person is the target of bullying

The two practical ways the organisations could adopt in ensuring bullying at the workplace are build good relationships work environment and anti-bullying policies. By building a good relationship at workplace it will lead to organisational success and well being of staffs, and creating an environment that builds good relationships also prevents bullying at workplace. It is much easier than dealing with bullying once it occurs. When staff have a clear picture of what an organisation wants to achieve, they are more likely to engage with the common goal. Likewise, a clear guidelines for expected behaviour, work culture and values means unreasonable behaviour is less likely to

Over the recent decades, workplace bullying has become a widespread issue and has turned into a vital point in the departments of corporation’s conduct. According to Dr. Gary Namie’s 2014 survey at Workplace Bullying Institute shows, 27% of U.S. workers have present or past direct involvement with bullying at work. An additional, 21% have been observed to the tormenting, and a sum of 72% know that bullying occurs in their company (WBI, 2014). It is outstanding the impacts that it can have on the worker as well as the entire organization.

In this course there will be 20 slides on workplace bullying, there will be two knowledge checks, a multimedia video, and a 10 question quiz to show what the trainees have learned from the training. Workplace bullying affects the organization, the workers, and the productivity of the organization however even with more research that has been done it’s still oversimplified and misunderstood situation that occurs in organizations (Branch, Ramsay, & Barker, 2013). There are some organizations that may overlook bullying because they think that competiveness and bullying are interchangeable and these are not interchangeable words. There is a distinct difference, most people have some competitive streak in them, and not all people have a bullying streak. Competiveness helps workers in organizations get quotas done in time and help push coworkers to do their absolute best but bullying make cause workers to do less than their best which then affects the productivity and work

Workplace bullying is often seen as an abuse of power by someone who is stronger physically, mentally, socially, electronically, verbally, politically or financially. Workplace bullying can also be seen as an act of aggression towards another person who may not be favored by the bully/ bullies.

Bullying is at an all-time high in the United States. Macintosh states, “Workplace bullying is widespread and there is a concern that it may be increasing.” (p.666). This behavior is a problem that can be found in households, big businesses, and in our educational system nationwide. Specifically, bulling in the workplace becoming more widespread. This is a critical review of an article that addresses bullying in the workplace. Before we examine this article in detail a person must understand the concept of workplace bulling. According to Macintosh, “Work place bulling is defined broadly as reported unwanted psychological, physical, or sexual abuse, or harassment” (p.666). The author does an exceptional job outlining the problem, explaining

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 bullying are included in Heeman’s report which are the bully, the target, and the bystander. The costs on the workplace can be threatening to the staffing, productivity and the overall work environment. Percentages and research are presented proving the amount of bullying that actually takes place in the workplace. Ways to combat the bullying are introduced into the report to include understanding and taking action to stop and prevent the bullying from continuing. Heeman concludes his report by mentioning that researchers need to focus their attention on finding solutions and ways to intercept bullying to lower the statistics and ratios.