Workplace bullying and harassment is estimated to affect millions of people in the United States. It disfigures individual lives like that of Cheryl Boulden and it disfigures the workplace in which it is allowed to take root (HRM Literature). From small family firms to world-renowned institutions, it thrives in silence. The same silence of targets who are too intimidated to complain, of colleagues who witness bullying but don’t speak up, and of negligent employers who fail or refuse to deal with the problem such as the Hoosier National Forrest. According to The Society for Human Resource management (SocHRM), “[Bullying is] defined as persistent, offensive, abusive, intimidating or insulting behavior or unfair actions at another
