Roughly 40% of workers — more than one million in Massachusetts — will experience workplace bullying during their work lives.
Workplace Bullying is repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons (the targets) by one or more perpetrators that takes one or more of the following forms:
- Verbal abuse
- Offensive conduct/behaviors (including nonverbal) which are threatening, humiliating, or intimidating
- Work interference — sabotage — which prevents work from getting done.
Workplace Bullying...
- Is driven by perpetrators' need to control the targeted individual(s)
- Is initiated by bullies who choose targets, timing, place, and methods.
- Escalates to involve others who side with the bully, either voluntarily through coercion.
- Undermines legitimate business interests when bullies' personal agendas take precedence over work itself.
- Is domestic violence at work where the abuser is on the payroll.
(from the Workplace Bullying Institute)
Read the article on Oprah.com.
Watch the workplace bullying video from NBC's Today Show.
Read the article from Inc. magazine.
Read The New York Times article.
Watch "Calling A Bully A Bully," produced by the California Healthy Workplace Advocates
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