Workplace Bullying and Harrasement

Question: Discuss about theWorkplace Bullying and Harrasement. Answer: Introduction: Bullying is basically the verbal comments or the acts that hurt an individual mentally or can even isolate the individual at the workplace. It is often seen at some instances that bullying involves negative physical contact. Bullying can be defined or characterized as the insulting or malicious behavior or the misuse of the power or abuse to an individual that can humiliate the individual and can create offensive environment.(ACAS, 2012) Bullying can be against an individual or a group of people at the workplace. The bullying and the harassment issues are seen to be very serious issues at the workplace that require adequate steps to be taken by the employers. The bullying and harassment often leads to negative impacts on the job due to which the victim may undergo stress, anxiety, anger and low level of commitment on the job.(Gov Uk, 2012) This issue is very important to be discussed and cured due to the main reason that it affects the productivity at the organization and creates negative atmosphere at the workplace. The bullying and the harassment affect the individual, co-workers and the organization. The problems that are faced by the individuals at the workplace due to the bullying and harassment includes : loosing the self confidence, depression, stress, disturbed sleep, eating problems, shock and anger, family stress and tension , not able to concentrate, low morale, feeling of frustration and mental or physical disorder and blaming oneself. On the other hand the effects of the bullying and harassment at the workplace affects the organization by increasing the costs for hiring new employees as the employees tend to leave the organization when bullied, increase in the absenteeism , decrease motivation and productivity, reduction in the corporate image, increase in the risk of accidents, poor customer service and d iversion of the efforts of the employees away from the productivity of the organization and increase in the outsourcing costs for keeping an eye on the behavior of the employees.(Hoel Zapf, 2010) There are various examples of bullying. It is basically a form of aggression but the action of the bullying re subtle. The examples of the bullying include: Isolation and exclusion of an individual socially Abusing physically or threatening Change in the work guidelines on constant basis Intimidating an individual Spread of negative words, gossips or rumors against a person that are not true Setting unattainable deadlines for an individual that are not possible to attain Deliberately impeding the work of a person Making offensive jokes against a person(Marrie, 2016) Giving wrong information to a person purposefully or withholding important information Giving undeserved punishments to an individual Creating an atmosphere of uselessness by not giving work to the individual; Blocking the various application of the person that includes the leave applications, training or promotion applications. Yelling on the person Tampering with the personal belonging of an individual or his work equipments Assigning the duties that are not reasonable and overloading the person with extra work by putting unnecessary pressures Unfair treatment Bibliography ACAS, 2012. Bullying and harassment at work. In Bullying and harassment at work. London. Gov Uk, 2012. Gov.uk. [Online] Available at: https://www.gov.uk/workplace-bullying-and-harassment [Accessed 6 October 2016]. Hoel, H. Zapf, D., 2010. Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace: Developments in Theory. 2nd ed. CRC press. Marrie, A., 2016. The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace Bullying - Page 76. London: Routledge.