Workplace Bullying

According to HeadsUp.org, a website that provides workplace resources for employees, employers, managers, and small business owners, the definition of workplace bullying is “repeated and unreasonable behaviour directed toward an employee or group of employees that creates a risk to health and safety”. This type of harmful behaviour in the workplace many times goes unreported, mainly because of its shameful, intimidating effect on the victimised employee. So many of these horrible incidents don’t come to light because the employee who is being bullied is working a lower-level position and is probably being bullied by someone who does the hiring and firing at that company. But it’s not always a boss or manager who is doing the bullying, and it can very well be a co-worker on the same level and/or pay grade as the person who’s feeling victimised.