Introduction:
Bullying is an aggressive act that happens everyday. Bullying is defined, by the Ontario Government, as repeated, persistent, continuous behaviour as opposed to a single negative act and is generally associated with a power imbalance between the victim and perpetrator, where the victim feels inferior (Salin 2003). An essential precondition of bullying is the awareness by the bully of a social or physical imbalance of power. Bullies will use this to assert their dominance by different actions such as, verbal harassment, verbal threat, physical assault, coercion, and other acts that are directed towards targets repeatedly. Bullying can have a lot of negative effects on the victim including both physical and emotion distress. Some symptoms of bullying are; constant high …show more content…
Work place bullying is very similar to childhood bullying, having similar effects on the victim. This paper will be focusing exclusively on workplace bullying. The structure of the workplace is generally constructed as employees working under a manager with little differences in authoritative power between employees. Management roles play a key factor in the workplace; they manage their subordinates, provide assignments for the employees, create the workplace culture, and make organizational decisions. Employees are essentially working around a manager’s whim. A manager’s management style can greatly influence an employees experience in a corporation. Previous research has shown that there are many different types of management styles that are employed in the work place. Some of the management styles include autocratic, consultative, persuasive, democratic, chaotic, and laissez-faire. The question that is being asked in this paper is how do management styles influence bullying in the workplace. Together management and its’ subordinates function side by side, and it is the priority of the managing people to understand how their managing styles influence the subordinates
Bullying is an aggressive act that happens everyday. Bullying is defined, by the Ontario Government, as repeated, persistent, continuous behaviour as opposed to a single negative act and is generally associated with a power imbalance between the victim and perpetrator, where the victim feels inferior (Salin 2003). An essential precondition of bullying is the awareness by the bully of a social or physical imbalance of power. Bullies will use this to assert their dominance by different actions such as, verbal harassment, verbal threat, physical assault, coercion, and other acts that are directed towards targets repeatedly. Bullying can have a lot of negative effects on the victim including both physical and emotion distress. Some symptoms of bullying are; constant high …show more content…
Work place bullying is very similar to childhood bullying, having similar effects on the victim. This paper will be focusing exclusively on workplace bullying. The structure of the workplace is generally constructed as employees working under a manager with little differences in authoritative power between employees. Management roles play a key factor in the workplace; they manage their subordinates, provide assignments for the employees, create the workplace culture, and make organizational decisions. Employees are essentially working around a manager’s whim. A manager’s management style can greatly influence an employees experience in a corporation. Previous research has shown that there are many different types of management styles that are employed in the work place. Some of the management styles include autocratic, consultative, persuasive, democratic, chaotic, and laissez-faire. The question that is being asked in this paper is how do management styles influence bullying in the workplace. Together management and its’ subordinates function side by side, and it is the priority of the managing people to understand how their managing styles influence the subordinates