No Workplace Bullies

What is Workplace Bullying? 

Workplace bullying is systematic aggressive communication, manipulation of work, and acts aimed at humiliating or degrading one or more individual that create an unhealthy power imbalance between bully and target(s), result in psychological consequences for targets and co-workers, and cost enormous monetary damage to an organization’s bottom line.

An abundance of research and anecdotal evidence indicates bullying is highly prevalent in the workplace and invites serious damaging consequences for targets, witnesses and the organization itself. Research from around the world continues to indicate up to 70% of working adults report having been bullied at some point in their working lives. Targets experience distress, humiliation, anger, anxiety, discouragement, hopelessness, depression, burnout, reduced quality and quantity of work, lower levels of job satisfaction, increased absenteeism and turnover and in some cases even Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Some have even committed suicide. For the organization, all of this ads up to loss to the bottom line, communication breakdown, absenteeism, turnover, costs for workers compensation and litigation, and an inability to meet organizational goals.

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