Introduction
Social interaction is based on persons with various personalities trying to co-exist in a particular space. Some personalities can be submissive, dominant, introverted and even extroverted; while some personalities can be happy or even aggressive. In the workforce persons with various personalities must co-exist for a specific number of hours engaging in activities that may be stressful or disliked; therefore persons whose personalities may be that of an aggressive or controlling manner may try to impose their will and opinions on others even if it is not wanted. There have been studies conducted by various researchers and organizations on the subject of workplace bullying and how it affects both the employer and the employee as …show more content…
Their study consisted of persons who were bullied within six (6) months of the study, previously bullied and those who witnessed work colleagues who were bullied. Their link with tertiary education and lifelong learning was examined as the impact of bullying and education was examined. They concluded their study with the findings that employers should be concerned about workplace bully as the relationship of personal experience and trigger factors in the psychological work environment can affect areas such as health, safety, retention and recruitment for business organizations and pastoral care and student support for schools (Mc Guckin et al., …show more content…
They identified various frameworks on which to draw on such as Carol Bacchi’s framework, they also looked at the Australian public service administration during their study. Their findings indicate however that various policies allow for workplace bullying to remain gender neutral which in their opinion inadequate and does not truly look at organizations disparities in relation to power by gender processes, and the gender neutral aspect of the issue masks the true issue of gender in workplace bullying.
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Stale Einarsenb in their article noted a gap in their research, however in Scandinavia Morten Birkeland Nielsen, along with Jørn Hetland attempted to fix this error by conducting a longitudinal study on the exposure between workplace bullying and negative mental health effects on a person’s health. This study was conducted for two (2) years and involved questionnaires and checklists
Social interaction is based on persons with various personalities trying to co-exist in a particular space. Some personalities can be submissive, dominant, introverted and even extroverted; while some personalities can be happy or even aggressive. In the workforce persons with various personalities must co-exist for a specific number of hours engaging in activities that may be stressful or disliked; therefore persons whose personalities may be that of an aggressive or controlling manner may try to impose their will and opinions on others even if it is not wanted. There have been studies conducted by various researchers and organizations on the subject of workplace bullying and how it affects both the employer and the employee as …show more content…
Their study consisted of persons who were bullied within six (6) months of the study, previously bullied and those who witnessed work colleagues who were bullied. Their link with tertiary education and lifelong learning was examined as the impact of bullying and education was examined. They concluded their study with the findings that employers should be concerned about workplace bully as the relationship of personal experience and trigger factors in the psychological work environment can affect areas such as health, safety, retention and recruitment for business organizations and pastoral care and student support for schools (Mc Guckin et al., …show more content…
They identified various frameworks on which to draw on such as Carol Bacchi’s framework, they also looked at the Australian public service administration during their study. Their findings indicate however that various policies allow for workplace bullying to remain gender neutral which in their opinion inadequate and does not truly look at organizations disparities in relation to power by gender processes, and the gender neutral aspect of the issue masks the true issue of gender in workplace bullying.
Morten Birkeland Nielsen, Stale Einarsenb in their article noted a gap in their research, however in Scandinavia Morten Birkeland Nielsen, along with Jørn Hetland attempted to fix this error by conducting a longitudinal study on the exposure between workplace bullying and negative mental health effects on a person’s health. This study was conducted for two (2) years and involved questionnaires and checklists