Why should business managers care about workplace bullying?
Isn’t bullying just a personality conflict that people can work out amongst themselves? Bullying doesn’t seem to be costing our business anything, what’s the problem? Part of the problem of workplace bullying is that it flies under the radar of management. The issue of bullying is confused with a simple personality conflict or legitimate management practices. Everyone who doesn’t get along with others is not a bully and tough management styles or unpopular management decisions don’t necessarily constitute bullying. Let’s back up and look at a definition of bullying. Dr. Gary Namie of the Workplace Bullying Institute > provides this definition: “Bullying at work is repeated, health-harming mistreatment that takes one or more of the following forms: verbal abuse; conduct that is threatening, intimidating or humiliating; or sabotage of work such that legitimate business interests are undermined.” This definition of bullying begins to provide clues to how workplace bullying can not only be
