Most of our time is spent at work. Not everyone enjoys their jobs, although, in the office, we all need to feel relaxed and at ease. Your workplace climate should be a welcoming one where, without extra stress or scrutiny, everyone will work towards their objectives.
Bullying requires language, gestures, photographs, and actions that threaten, embarrass, or socially isolate anyone or reduce the self-esteem of someone. Bullying commonly occurs where there is an unequal match between the abuser and the target.
How widespread is bullying In the workplace?
- In the workplace, nearly six out of 10 people have encountered or suffered abuse.
- 37 percent were bullied on their own
- Any of the 2,000 persons experienced bullying, but the only 48percent did much about it.
- 68percent said that the conduct was ‘overt,’ such as keeping peers out
- Almost one 20 stated they observed physical harassment between co-workers
- Yelling, firing, bullying, and aggressive acts have all been recorded.
How do you know, if the bully needs to be handled?
In contrast to the above acts, when the bully points out your errors and continually brings them to your attention, you realize you’re dealing with a bully. Or worst, insulting you, telling your colleagues lies, or even manipulating and sabotaging your job.
If you feel so threatened to attend those sessions based on who is dining nearby, you stop entering into the cafeteria, or you take a break before entering staff business events, the issue is not because you’re reluctant or retired. Take a glance at your relationship with a colleague in specific & you will notice that you are being bullied by him or her.
How to manage office bullying
Researching the agenda of the business
If you’re facing workplace bullying or meet someone who is, review the procedures of your employer and evaluate the right guidelines for documenting such behavior. For such actions, many companies get a no-tolerance policy, which provides reporting requirements after being exposed to or observed.
Talk to the boss or HR department regarding putting a new policy in place to shield workers from harassment if your company does not have a policy or the existing policy needs changing to match virtual office arrangements.
Take a beat
Relax a bit to size up the case if you believe you have been bullied at work. You will decide the right way to deal with the problem from a relaxed and balanced viewpoint.
Tip: Bear in mind that failures are made by persons. Take a second to decide whether the “bullying” was merely a one-time occurrence but something that would turn into ongoing harassment.
Report the violation and your performance
Start recording if it needed you a while to understand the whole magnitude as to what was coming to you and you feel as if you’ve lost your opportunity to respond quickly.
Keep a diary of who, what and when, how, and why things are happening. If you are at a team meeting and the harassment happens, then just go back to your desk and note down really who was also at the staff meeting, what was being said, why this was said, and attempt to always put as much into detail as you can about the facts of the matter.
If you plan later to record the abuser, you’ll like to be able to provide detailed descriptions of the actions you’re reporting.
Call for an end to the bullying behavior
It’s a huge jump to warn a co-worker of bullying behavior, but getting insecure about asking someone what’s going on is absolutely justifiable. Try to note that it’s the duty of the career to ensure that everyone is secure and comfortable at work.
Try speaking to the individual who exhibits the actions of bullying, and demonstrating that this is unacceptable or insulting. You might ask somebody else to be there in the discussion with you, e.g. a friend you know, if you feel uncomfortable speaking to this person.
Takeaway
Your well-being is the most important thing because you’re no good to anybody without it. If you’ve done whatever you can to eradicate intimidation, but it’s still happening, perhaps it may be time to consider other solutions and leave the company.
