Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Too Many Bystanders


Managers and administrators need to lift their gaze above the bullying event to determine the damage or aftermath of the event. For example, are employee survey ratings poor or perhaps avoided altogether? An analysis of the social environments in the workplace and participation rates in team-building and collaborative projects in the workplace will be another factor that might indicate that the organization has more bystanders than originally thought. The bystander effect indicates that the more witnesses there are concerning an emergency or negative event, the less likely individuals will step forward and help. When a bully is left unchecked, bystanders feel that their intervention would be too costly on a personal level or so insignificant to promote change that the stress of remaining an apathetic bystander is considered a necessary tradeoff. The longer the situation goes without an organizational culture change, the more toxic and unstable the work environment will become.

Finding the Good in the Workplace Bully

 

No comments:

Post a Comment