There are a lot of ethics in every working environment. This ethics are well followed by people that work for a given organization. Some employees have a tendency of using aggressive behavior against others. This is behavior is referred to as workplace bullying. It can include several tactics that makes an individual uncomfortable in the place of work.
Some of the tactics used include physical abuse, humiliation and non verbal behavior among others. This type of aggression is categorized in different ways. Any type of aggression from the management to the employees is termed as organizational bullying. It can also be an aggressive behavior from one employee to another.
Attacks on people personal life by ridiculing and gossiping them. It can also be in form of physical violence. This type of unethical behavior is caused by different thing between and among people in a working environment. One of the major causes of bullying is misunderstanding between people. This is usually associated with rivalry.
Other behaviors that make people uncomfortable are rumors and gossips in the organizations. People that want to intimidate others spread false information about others to tarnish their names. The rumors spread may be either organizational or personal issues outside the organization. This is a way of bullying workers in organizations.
There are five major categories of unethical behavior in any organization. One of them is the threat to professional status. This includes belittling of ideas and public professional humiliation. It also involves intimidation of competence procedure. This is termed as an unreasonable behavior that is usually associated with humiliation and arrogance.
There are organizations that discriminate people against color, gender and religion among others. Other factors that contribute to bullying are relationships between employees. Workers that have strong relationships may be envied by those that do not have close ties. Changes in the organizational levels may also contribute to a decline in morale of employees.
In some organization people tend to prevent others from accessing certain opportunities. This is referred to as organizational isolation involves with holding some information so that some employees do not get to access it. Isolation can be both physical and social. Social isolation involves ignoring people in meetings and other social events in an organization. Some people overwork others. This includes getting undue pressure and working with no deadlines fixed. It may also include unnecessary disruptions . Another form of workplace bullying is destabilization.
McArdle Legal employment lawyers in Sydney specialise in workplace bullying cases.
