Problem-yes certainly
When managers of any description overstep the acceptable bounds of authority and when they terrorise staff with their tyrannical behaviour towards others,the psychological effect has been professionally likened in many cases to that of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
So where bullying is tolerated by any organisation,employers must be made aware of the potential damage they are doing to employees health,morale,productivity and indeed the image this represents should it become publicly known that those supposedly responsible for staff well-being,care so little for their employees that they allow an oppressor to run riot with peoples lives from within.
It is amazing to us that any organisation is prepared to condone an atmosphere of infectious fear simply through inaction.
Demeaning and devaluing someone when they go to work is hardly an effective way of managing,especially if they no longer enjoy doing their job. We all know that if we enjoy our job we tend to work well. A failure to recognise bullying at work is certainly an expensive mistake for management at a time when,presumably none of us can afford to be ignorant.
Bullying is bad for business. It also involves :Â A risk of being taken to court or industrial tribunal by a disaffected employee. A threat to the image of the organisation
 Bullying in the workplace can place an intolerable strain on the emotional and physical health and well-being of an employee who is subjected to bullying by a manager at work. This can cause loss of confidence,loss of self esteem,tiredness an inability to sleep.lack of appetite,panic attacks,depression and a dread of going to work.
Bullying in the workplace can take many forms including:
constantly criticising an employee,often in front of other employees.
Spreading nasty rumours and remarks about an employee.
Using bad,obscene aggressive, threatening language to an employee.
Shouting at,intimidating and harassing an employee.
Taking away responsibility from an employee unnecessarily.
Asking the employee to do trival and menial jobs which the employee is not responsible for.
Withholding important information from an employee which the employee needs to have as a part of their job.
Isolating an employee by ignoring him/her and excluding an employee from conversations and communications which are relevant to his/her area of responsibility.
A manager passing off an employees ideas and work as his own.
Expecting an employee to produce work in an unrealistic and/or impossible time scale.
Blaming an employee for the managers mistakes.
These are some of the overt ways of bullying there are of course covert ways of bullying and a serial bully will be well versed in these. Deception through charm to his seniors is the most common method of denial of wrongdoing,shift the blame to the victim is another,keeping well in with senior management is another tried and trusted method, so if or when the heat gets turned up you will seen to be the good guy,but that cloak of deception can be seen through,it just takes someone with a clear view to realise that this is just a mirage and the reality shows something all together sinister.
Ther is no doubt that in todays workplace bullying is rife. Many companys and organisations have decided to take firm action against workplace bullying,by putting into place policys and proceedures which ensure although not 100% effective that bullies are brought to account and punished for their crime.
As for the victims in all this. sometimes the damage done to them is beyond repair and their trust in people is for ever shattered. Gone is any kind of confidence in doing their job,and they are left to pick up the pieces of their broken lifes. That is the reality of workplace bullying if allowed to go unchecked.Trades unions alongside organisations now have a better understanding of the crime of workplace bullying and trauma that victims suffer.The message is loud and clear workplace bullys are being caught up with and will be punished for crimes against others,there can be no other way if all who feel frightened in the workplace are to have any hope of  leadind a normal working life.