From the data that was collected, the women of this study described themselves as competent employees. They experienced emotional, verbal, and physical bullying that included incivility, intimidation, manipulation, criticism, blame, deceit, exclusion, aggression, yelling, slamming doors, throwing objects, stomping and even being shaken (Macintosh, p. 51). Along with these episodes, their roles and responsibilities at work became more undermined, minimized, and sometimes they were removed from their jobs altogether. These episodes made them feel that their reputations were in question and any kind of opportunity that they would have for advancement within the company was compromised.
During these episodes of bullying, the women experienced
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When someone experiences workplace bullying, that sense of social validation is taken away. The bullying victim struggles to reason with why this is happening to them and why they are being ostracized. These feelings lead to helplessness, despair, and alienation in the victims. Most victims find it hard to let go of the bullying situation and to leave it at work. They bring these feelings and frustrations home with them and are constantly obsessing over what their fate will be. This takes a toll not only on the victim, but their family, friends, and other support groups as well. They worry about their finances, other coworker relationships, and even whether or not they can still be productive on their job. It is not easy balancing a work and home life to begin with and adding workplace bullying to that just adds more to the daily …show more content…
The former Chairperson of the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Ginette Petipas-Taylor, wrote an article, (2009) Naming workplace bullying: Women workers speak out, concerning the fact that Canadian female employees reported a much higher level of work stress than their male counterparts due to workplace bullying and that they experienced more of the negative health effects than men (p. 20). In June 2004, Quebec was the first province in Canada to put a law into effect concerning workplace bullying which protects workers. Part of that law states that “every employee has a right to a work environment free from psychological harassment,” and that employers must take “reasonable action” to prevent it and must stop it when they become aware (p. 21). For this law to be passed, it should bring awareness to the fact that workplace bullying is more prevalent than we realize and the effects are devastating, harmful, and can be felt long-term for
Berry, P. A., Gillespie, G. L., Gates, D., & Schafer, J. (2012). Novice Nurse Productivity Following Workplace Bullying. Journal Of Nursing Scholarship, 44(1), 80-87. doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.2011.01436.x
Bullying has many negative effects on many people such as the victim, the bully himself, and society. Studies show these effects may turn out to be short-term or long-term.
It has various negative effects which are persistent in nature, and the individual victim realizes the behaviour as bullying (Wilson, 2016). Bullying is associated with physical and psychological problems among nurses leading to absenteeism, poor performance, low job satisfaction, and increased turnover (Ganz, et al., 2015). The issue of bullying among nurses further affects the entire health care team including patient outcomes and health care costs due to the declining level of nurses’ performance (Becher & Visovsky, 2012). Although bullying exists in the nursing work place, they are silent in nature, and goes undetected (Becher & Visovsky,2012). Hence, identifying and managing workplace bullying needs efforts of individual facing bullying and support of the
Workplace bullying is defined as any as any type of repetitive abuse in which the victim of the bullying behaviour suffers verbal abuse, threats, humiliating or intimidating behaviours, or behaviours that interfere with his or her job performance and are meant to place at risk the health and safety of the victim (Murray, 2009). Bullying can take many forms, some blatant, others more subtle. Researchers ha...
In the 10 years Mazey had been employed with Hudson, he was observed throwing things which barely missed employees, yelling at subordinates “in a rage” and making “derogatory and demeaning remarks” possibly regarding ethnicity or origin, among other inappropriate behavior (Yemen & Clawson, 2007). Mazey can be considered as a workplace bully. Hocker and Wilmot (2011) define bullying as “repeated and persistent patterns of negative workplace behavior that is ongoing for six months or longer in duration” (p. 175). The excessive bullying behavior Mazey displayed created interpersonal tension that affected productivity. Hudson associates were hesitant, or refused to work with Mazey due to prior...
Workplace bullying is an issue at my current place of employment. It pertains specifically to my experiences and observations of a staff member who feels the need to demoralize and abuse her co-workers and patients. Her harsh mannerisms, including aggressiveness and manipulation had a negative impact on many staff
Murray, J. S. (2009, September–October). Workplace bullying in nursing: A problem that can’t be ignored. MEDSURG Nursing, 18 (5), 273–276. Retrieved from http://www.amsn.org/sites/default/files/documents/practice-resources/healthy-work-environment/resources/MSNJ_Murray_18_05.pdf
She would like bullying to be considered a never-event, much like hospital-acquired infections. By employing some of the tactics proposed in the Healthy Workplace Bill, the author of this paper believes she can make a difference. Leadership Goal and Implementation To attain the position of a Trauma Coordinator, the author of this paper believes she needs to rebuild her self-confidence before returning to the trauma services arena. “Self-confidence is the fundamental basis from which leadership grows” (Dao, 2016). She is in therapy to repair some of the damage sustained while working for a manager who engaged in workplace bullying.
Downplaying bullying, saying things like “He was just joking around”, and “Don’t take things so seriously” can have serious repercussions. Some people are more fragile than others and react to this type of treatment with anger or violence. On the other hand, there are managers who rule with an iron hand and sometimes this pressure can cause an employee to crack.
Vessey, J., Demarco, R., & DiFazio, R. (2010). Bullying, harassment, and horizontal violence in the nursing workforce: The state of the science. Annual Review Of Nursing Research, 28, 133-157. doi:10.1891/0739-6686.28.133
The victim is able to remove him/herself from early bullying by resisting and is often able to return to the original job or find a new job.
On May 31, 2012, the Government of British Columbia passed Bill 14. This bill states, "a worker is entitled to compensation where a mental disorder is a reaction to (i) one or more traumatic events arising out of and in the course of a worker's employment, or (ii) a significant work-related stressor, including bullying or harassment, or a cumulative series of significant work-related stressors, arising out of and in the course of the worker's employment" (WorkSafeBC, 2014). Bullying and harassment are viewed as stressors that can lead to stress-related sickness and are not allowed in workplace environments by employers, supervisors and employees. WorkSafeBC bullying and harassment policies allow for, "claims where employees were berated publicly by supervisors, where employees ganged up on a worker with taunts, and where employees were subjected to sexual or racial taunts, either at the hands of co-workers or customers" (Penner, 2013). The physical and emotional/psychological wellness of employees is now the responsibility of supervisors and employers.
Nonetheless business owners and managers still need to be on the lookout for employees that exhibit poor impulse control, that are quick-tempered, that tend to yell, use profanity, using insults and calling names. They may conveniently leave others out of important meetings or e-mails to discount the accomplishments of others and take credit for things they didn’t do. They also may withhold valuable information from other employees in an effort to sabotage their work performance. Bullies are the ones who dominate meetings with interruptions, sarcasm and insults as they also consistently tend to question and criticize other people’s ideas. Furthermore workplace bullying can cost the company money with the disruption the work environment and the impacting it has on worker morale.
Bullying of students in school is an abuse that affects and produces a number of negative experiences on the victim. It is proven that those students who bully do so merely because they see themselves superior than those being bullied. They use this as a tactic to make juniors fear them and show them that they are not equal in any way. Some will even bully as a revenge of the bullying they suffered in the past. I have been bullied before and I know some of the effects it could have on a person. Bullying is a serious cause of many issues and has effects that may be long lasting.
What is workplace bullying? According to the Workplace Bullying Institute “ 35 per cent of the U.S workforce repor...