Workplace bullying is not a new problem, but only just recently has the plague of bullying at work been quantified. Conservative estimates put the loss in productivity at over a billion dollars in the USA alone. Decline in employee morale, loss in productivity, employee turnover, health problems and loss in organizational reputation are just a few of the problems that the bullying causes.
- Taunting, teasing or making jokes about a co-worker.
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Sabotaging another employee's work or copying, plagiarizing or stealing work.
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Deliberately isolating or excluding a co-worker from work related activities.
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Yelling, screaming, sarcasm, or other verbal abuse.
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Menacing a co-worker with threatening looks, gestures and body language.
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Hazing or initiations
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Unreasonably creating conflict or refusing to work with a co-worker.
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Physically threatening, shoving, striking, or touching a co-worker
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Gossiping or spreading rumors about co-workers-
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The planting of false information or using private or confidential information to defame a co-worker.
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Setting unrealistic standards and deadlines which are unachievable or that are arbitrarily changed without notice or reason.
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Giving excessive, unreasonable and unending amounts of work to a subordinate employee.
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Deliberately denying a co-worker the resources necessary to do their job effectively.
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Ignoring, ridiculing or belittling a co-worker's contribution or deliberately failing to acknowledge their good work.
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Giving unjustly negative performance appraisals or taking unwarranted disciplinary action.
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Singling out or treating a co-worker differently
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Holding a subordinate employee to different standards than their peers.
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Excessive, unneeded and negative micromanagement that undermines an employee's ability to their job.
