Bullying in todays world does not just exist at a grade school level. Bullying can follow for years after you graduate college and enter the world of business. Top management can make accusation toward lower management. Entry level employees can intimidate other entry level employees. A person can easily find themselves the victim of bullying or be the person that inflicts the pain. By definition bullying is “the repeated mistreatment of an individual or individuals by aggressive or unreasonable behavior, including persistent abuse and humiliation by verbal, nonverbal, psychological, or physical means” (Kinicki & Fugate, 2016). Bullying in the business world has become an issue that companies fear. It is also a challenge to know how to stop
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Some are related to advancements of employees who are power dominate. According to Kinicki & Fugate, “people are more likely to be a bully if they possess power oriented values”. For example, John is promoted to the position of a District Manager. Not long after John is promoted, Bill comes to him about some issues he is having with the new software. John, annoyed by the interruption, tells Bill he is an idiot if he cannot figure out the software on his own. John informs Bill that if he does not have the intelligence to figure out the software, he will hire a female off the street. That way he can at least look at something pretty when asked dumb questions and slammed the door in his face. What makes this a form of bullying is the fact that every time Bill asks John a question, John uses humiliation by verbal means. In other words, John calls Bill an idiot, which is degrading and compares Bill to the opposite sex with physical appearances while threating his job. This can be psychologically harmful. One could consider John’s behavior as not only bullying but it could be considered a hostile work environment. “According to current statistics, between 35-50% of American workers may be the victims or observers of abuse by workplace bullies and 20% of this bullying crosses the line into workplace harassment” (Steptoe & Johnson, Grim, 2015). Bullying can also stem from the way a person was
Some are related to advancements of employees who are power dominate. According to Kinicki & Fugate, “people are more likely to be a bully if they possess power oriented values”. For example, John is promoted to the position of a District Manager. Not long after John is promoted, Bill comes to him about some issues he is having with the new software. John, annoyed by the interruption, tells Bill he is an idiot if he cannot figure out the software on his own. John informs Bill that if he does not have the intelligence to figure out the software, he will hire a female off the street. That way he can at least look at something pretty when asked dumb questions and slammed the door in his face. What makes this a form of bullying is the fact that every time Bill asks John a question, John uses humiliation by verbal means. In other words, John calls Bill an idiot, which is degrading and compares Bill to the opposite sex with physical appearances while threating his job. This can be psychologically harmful. One could consider John’s behavior as not only bullying but it could be considered a hostile work environment. “According to current statistics, between 35-50% of American workers may be the victims or observers of abuse by workplace bullies and 20% of this bullying crosses the line into workplace harassment” (Steptoe & Johnson, Grim, 2015). Bullying can also stem from the way a person was