What is Workplace Bullying

This is a harmful bullying behavior at the workplace that is targeted toward a workplace victim.

Face-to-face bullying that occurs at work during the workday.

An escalating process in which one or more employees are subjected to negative psychological and physical abuse recurring over an extended period of time (usually 6 months or more), where the target is reduced to a psychologically inferior state, and it creates a hostile work environment to those exposed.

Is generally considered as repeated, health-harming mistreatment of one or more persons, by one or more perpetrators within the workplace.

Workplace bullying signifies emotional abuse, encompassing subtle and/or obvious negative psychosocial behaviours embodying aggression, hostility and intimidation, generally characterized by persistence, exhibited by workplace insiders and/or outsiders operating individually and/or as a group, to an individual employee or a group of employees during the course of the latter’s work. Being interpersonal and/or organizational in level, the display of negative behaviours, which most often bears the mark of influences from within and/or outside the workplace, occurs privately and/or publicly, in real and/or cyber forms, in the context of an existing or evolving unequal power relationship between the parties. While targets of workplace bullying, notwithstanding the harm they undergo, often strive towards well-being, protagonists like bullies, bystanders and employers experience varied outcomes ( D’Cruz & Noronha, 2019 AU38: The citation "D’Cruz & Noronha, 2019" matches multiple references. Please add letters (e.g. "Smith 2000a"), or additional authors to the citation, to uniquely match references and citations. ).

A large range of moderately intense, psychologically injurious behaviors perpetrated generally by a group of people against a single person with intention to secure his/her discharge or walkout.

Means persistent and repeated hurtful behavior directed at others within a workplace which causes physical or emotional harm to the victims.