Something called the Workplace Bullying Institute in Bellingham, Wash. thinks this was outrageous behavior.
While workplace bullying can take place in even the best of companies, it is a behavior that can be stopped.
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That means bullying is four times more common than sexual harassment or racial discrimination, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute.
Research from the Workplace Bullying Institute estimates that as many as a third of employees endure bullying in the workplace.
Many companies already recognize workplace bullying as a problem that can sap morale, lead to increased employee turnover and even affect the bottom line.
According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, bullying is defined as repeated health-harming behaviors that can include verbal abuse, offensive conduct and intentional sabotage.
In Massachusetts, lawmakers are working to make workplace bullying illegal.
According to New York lawmakers, between 16% and 21% of employees have experienced health-endangering workplace bullying, abuse and harassment, and such behavior is four times more prevalent than sexual harassment.
Peter Johnson, a delegate from Bromley in Kent, said it was no coincidence the rise in workplace bullying had come at the same time as the pressure in schools from league tables and Ofsted inspections.
Fiester doesn't have to worry about those tirades anymore, but she hears lots of similar stories in her current role as operations manager at the Society for Human Resource Management, where she often fields questions about the growing issue of workplace bullying.
They already have (or should immediately adopt) a dispute resolution protocol addressing workplace bullying along with a realistic and clearly defined set of anti-bullying policies, the violation of which give rise to a precisely articulated set of escalating consequences, ending with termination.
The costs to society extend beyond workplace bullying, because chronic bullies are also more likely to end up in prisons, and our already taxed budget will end up paying for their care, according to Michele Borba, author of several parenting books, including Building Moral Intelligence.
Unlike schoolroom bullying, most workplace aggression is verbal or behavioural rather than violent.
Half the employers in a 2011 survey by the management association reported incidents of bullying in their workplace, and about a fourth of human resource professionals themselves said they had been bullied.
It will also give women the right to breastfeed in public and outlaw "homophobic bullying" in the workplace.
One reason the issue has attracted more attention in recent years is that parents who deal with school bullying realize it can happen in the workplace, too.
But Parella, the employment lawyer, thinks it's only a matter of time before states begin passing these laws and bullying issues become a major factor in workplace litigation.
In 2008, Sorozan succeeded in placing "mutual respect" provisions in labor contracts with the state that say harassment, abusive language and bullying behavior will not be tolerated in the workplace.
There is little doubt, however, that a bullying cause of action would create more uncertainty and divisiveness in the workplace and far greater burdens on employers than any supposed set of benefits could possibly justify.
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