An Organizational Approach to Workplace Bullying

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Sunday, January 7, 2018

Bullies Without Boundaries

PTSD and burnout are issues for the entire bully triad, and these problems may be severe enough to warrant an evaluation concerning each member’s personal agendas and intentions for possible harm. Holding grudges and sabotaging organizational property and innovation are just some of the warning signs that physical violence toward other employees may be possible. These warning signs or levels of anger or grief are often due to a loss of something that is felt as an entitlement because of hard work and dedication. Bullies without boundaries grab rewards and recognition without pause if the organizational system for rewarding employees is dysfunctional or unfair.

Finding the Good in the Workplace Bully

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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Character Assassination is a Form of Bullying

Character assassination is a form of bullying because it is a deliberate attempt to destroy someone's credibility and reputation. In psychology, character assassination begins when the bully is shamed, feels inferior, threatened, or is an insecure, narcissistic personality type. Character assassination involves triangulation instead of direct communication, gossiping, misuse of power and authority, manipulation of the truth, deceit, groupthink, double-speak, spreading of rumors, unhealthy egoism, and narcissism to defame and cast doubt on someone's morals and integrity.

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Friday, December 15, 2017

Seeing the Good in One Another.

Finding the good in the workplace bully, victim or bystander involves gratitude and finding value in the effort that it takes to change organizational culture. Deciding to work with employees who do not get along is a major step for an organization, and it is an announcement of good faith that each employee has the capacity for change and for seeing the good in one another. Gratitude fosters self-efficacy and is an agentic mechanism that increases the sense of personal competence and value for personally chosen goals and efforts in the workplace. The level of support that team members give to one another in the workplace can be the defining factor for superior performance far above efforts derived from organizational reward and recognition alone. Supportive climates build trust, better communication, and free-flowing information exchange. Gratitude is a communal agent and helps employees feel connected and valued. Without gratitude in the workplace, defensiveness increases, which becomes a barrier to success at every level of operation.

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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Organizational Language Must be Free of Dominance and Shame

Examining workplace culture for bullies and conducting needs assessment surveys will lessen blaming and finger-pointing because they identify problems in an objective manner where managers can impartially analyze the data and reformulate the areas that seem to breed bully-like behaviors. However, it is important to examine assessments and surveys individually to make sure that the data collection methods do not add further dominance issues regarding language, disability, or cultural challenges. Reducing negative communication and looking for practices that are framed to create dominance and shame will reduce the triggers that stimulate a bully’s aggressive behavior.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Leaders Still Define Bullying by Childhood Playground Standards.

Many workplace bully behaviors go unnoticed or labeled as just inappropriate workplace behavior because leaders still define bullying by childhood playground standards. If the bully-type behaviors do not include insults or threats of aggressive behavior, then the event may be minimized or go unnoticed in the workplace. The difference between the playground bully and the workplace bully is experience and a maturation of coercion and manipulation skills to control the environment. An adult bully is one who harbors resources, steals the work of others, restricts communication, uses aggression and coercion to get what they want, and creates barriers to reward, and recognition for others. Adult bully in the workplace increases the cost of operations and risk and reduces productivity, innovation, and creativity. Adult bullying in the workplace also increases absenteeism, exit seeking, and accidents and injury.

Have you updated your organizational definition of workplace bullying?

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