Every body loses
Bulling at work is in nobodies interest. Both employers and employees are in a lose:lose scenario as a result of bullying in the workplace. The employer can expect significantly higher sickness rates, high employee turnover with the resultant high cost of training and retraining, exceedingly low work force moral and poor industrial relations whilst the employees can expect higher levels of STRESS, a miserable working environment and even premature death due to stress related illness such as heart disease and certain forms of cancer which have been linked to stress. Indeed, even SUICIDE and murder are far from unknown in workplaces which have bullies in the workforce.
To the employee, a bully can make life unbearable, as in the case we have been highlighting in Muirhouse Social Work Centre. Many employees will simply leave again as in Muirhouses case. Others will keep their heads down and some may even begin to fight back. The latter category of course can usually be seen as a problem employee by the emploting organization who WILL RARELY RECOGNIZE that there may be a deeper problem at the workplace.
If you think back to any experience that you had with a school bully then you will no doubt understand the emotions that the target of workplace bulling goes through. The emotions are after all a natural and normal responce to an abnormal ongoing series of events
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