Work Place bullying

Bullying at the office,comprising negative behaviuour like belittling comments, persistent criticism or withholding of resources is more damaging than sexual harrasement.
Both bullying and sexual harrasement can create negative work environments and unhealthy consequences for employees but the researchers found that agreesion had more severe consequences.Employees who experienced bullying,lack of civility or interpersonal conflict were more likely to quit their jobs,have lower well being, be less satisfied with their work and have less satisfying relations with their bosses than who were sexually harrased.
Bullying included persistently criticizing an employee’s work ,yelling,repeatedly reminding the employee of mistakes ,spreading gossip or lies,ignoring or excluding a worker , and insulting an employees behaviour ,habits,attitudes and private life.
Bullying is often more subtle.For instance how does an employee report to their boss that they have been excluded from Lunch or are they being ignored by co-workers.
In new countries of eastern Europe like Latvia ,Estoni and Lithuania the more effective strategy is that the boss hires his or her own budies and they gang up to push the odd one out by these methods.
How many of you have experienced it!
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