Aryanne Oade

Managing Workplace Bullying

How to identify, respond to and manage bullying behaviour in the workplace

twsm Why has workplace bullying become such a hot topic recently?

ao Incidents of workplace bullying are on the increase. More and more people witness, observe or are subject to bullying behaviour in the workplace. The quality and range of written information available on the subject has increased accordingly.

twsm Why do some people bully their colleagues?

ao Their intrapersonal choice to use punishing and penalising behaviour against a colleague is an internally derived choice, one which often comes from a place of jealousy, envy, fear and very low levels of empathy with the people they target. I believe that just about anyone could become the target of a workplace bully at some point in their working lives but that not everyone will be capable of using bullying behaviour against someone else. Bullies use excessive aggression against the colleague(s) and workplace contacts they target and then find ways of justifying this punitive approach to themselves thereafter.

twsm Why do some workplace bullies get away with it for so long?

ao Workplace bullying is often allowed to thrive for so long because it is not seen clearly enough for what it is by those Aryanne Oade Managing Workplace Bullying How to identify, respond to and manage bullying behaviour in the workplace