The Causes Of Workplace Bullying

By Chris McArdle


Workplace bullying is a social verbal, physical and non verbal abuse from an employer or another person in the working environment. It can happen in any type of organization including of organization including offices shops, restaurants and government organization. It can happen to all types of employees including volunteers, student interns and permanent employees. Some of the workplace tormenting may be criminal offenses and are addressed in court of law.

Unethical behavior in an organization is repeated hurtful attacks from people in the organization. Some of the bullying behavior includes changing work tasks and making them more difficult for employees to handle. This involves doubling the work done by workers without raising their salaries. This is a problem that demotivates a lot of people in organizations.

It is the work of the management to give strict rules on such behavior. They do this by writing a list of all behaviors that are unacceptable in a given organization. They also give the actions that will be taken if a certain behavior occurs in the organization. Majority of organizations couch employees on bullying behaviors.

People that want managerial seats in an organization may tend to hate each other, this leads to doing anything that will bring down your rival. People do a lot of things that can humiliate their core workers. Another cause of this type of behavior is dictatorship. Managers that feel that they own the organization tend to dictate all activities.

Corporate restructuring is another cause of organizational tormenting. The structure of an organization can contribute much to animosity among workers. This is associated with angers resulting from demotions and promotions in an organization. The status of employees in an organization can also lead to inappropriate behaviors in the organization.

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.

This is an aggressive behavior that affects employees. People that are tormented spend most of their time in offices than they do with their families may also cause traumatic and stress disorders in employees. Other problems caused by workplace bullying are depression, financial problems caused by absences and medication cost among others. People that are commonly affected by this type of behavior are single mothers. This is because of increased responsibilities.




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