How to prevent bullying
1 Introduction The purpose of this report is to make a brief introduction what is bullying at work, how we can identify bullying and those people who are using that violence to their co-workers. In the end our purpose was to state all the important facts how people in the management position could prevent the mental violence at work. ... 2 What is bullying? Bullying is a form of non-psychical violence. ... In the workplace, bullying is usually used when there are some signs of underperformance. ... ) There are different types of bullying. To name a few of those: Pressure bullying or unwritten bullying is where someone has stress, and he/she becomes short-tempered, irritable and may shout or swear at others. Organisational bullying is a combination of pressure bullying and corporate bullying, and appears when an organisation struggles to adapt to changing markets, reduced income, cut in budgets, some expectations, and other external pressures. And the last one corporate bullying is where the employer abuses employees with the knowledge that the law is weak and jobs are scare. ... ) 3 What are the signs of ‘Bullying’ and what are the reasons for it? ... ) The purpose of bullying is to hide the feeling of incomplete and being asked for their behaviours and its consequences. ... ) 6 What are the causes of bullying at work? Researchers found out that bullying only occurs in an organisational culture that permits behaviour like that. Moreover, the person who is bullying only does it when he or she has the permission of their superiors in some king of way. In some organisations, bullying is a part of the leadership and managerial practice. ... ) For the cause of bullying is the quality of the psychosocial work environment very relevant. A work situation characterised by role conflict and a lack of interest and challenging work tasks, combined with negative interpersonal climate in the work group, seems to be a high risk for bullying. ... If the social climate is characterised by low trust and low interpersonal tension, than the possibility of bullying is very high.