Introduction:
This report investigates the legislative means for confronting bullying in an Australian workplace. As bullying has become increasingly common throughout many organisations, the negative impacts on an individual and workplace environment are conveyed. The Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) is also examined, which is a legislation recognised for the psychological hazards including bullying in a workplace, violence, aggression and other anti-social behaviours. The discussion then focuses on the authors argument while anti-bullying laws are imposed workplace bullying remains a recognised problem across many organisations, without an adequate solution.
What do the authors mean by ‘workplace bullying’?
A brief description of workplace bullying can be referred to mistreatment either verbal or physical affecting ones ability to work. Bullying can be portrayed as an internal violence meaning affecting …show more content…
However, according to Johnstone, Bluff and Claytone (2012, 93) the difficulties of addressing workplace bullying resulted across the country, including countless regulations and codes of conduct, introducing different obligations on employers and employees, inconsistency of penalties and enforcement of mechanisms. Consequently, most of the states have addressed the legislation of OHS except for western Australia and victoria, due to the fear of it would not include provisions from the harmonised laws or the model act that it considered ‘inferior’ to existing state laws (Windholz 2013, 197). Additionally, Victoria that harmonlised laws such as OHS, would take them backwards, and will ‘damage small and medium business, reduce productivity and cause job losses’. Despite this impediment to full harmonisation there is considerable overlap and thus pseudo harmonisation in state and territory
This report investigates the legislative means for confronting bullying in an Australian workplace. As bullying has become increasingly common throughout many organisations, the negative impacts on an individual and workplace environment are conveyed. The Occupation Health and Safety (OHS) is also examined, which is a legislation recognised for the psychological hazards including bullying in a workplace, violence, aggression and other anti-social behaviours. The discussion then focuses on the authors argument while anti-bullying laws are imposed workplace bullying remains a recognised problem across many organisations, without an adequate solution.
What do the authors mean by ‘workplace bullying’?
A brief description of workplace bullying can be referred to mistreatment either verbal or physical affecting ones ability to work. Bullying can be portrayed as an internal violence meaning affecting …show more content…
However, according to Johnstone, Bluff and Claytone (2012, 93) the difficulties of addressing workplace bullying resulted across the country, including countless regulations and codes of conduct, introducing different obligations on employers and employees, inconsistency of penalties and enforcement of mechanisms. Consequently, most of the states have addressed the legislation of OHS except for western Australia and victoria, due to the fear of it would not include provisions from the harmonised laws or the model act that it considered ‘inferior’ to existing state laws (Windholz 2013, 197). Additionally, Victoria that harmonlised laws such as OHS, would take them backwards, and will ‘damage small and medium business, reduce productivity and cause job losses’. Despite this impediment to full harmonisation there is considerable overlap and thus pseudo harmonisation in state and territory