New Data published by the Workplace Bullying Institute is pretty alarming. According to the Institute, nearly 1/3 of all employees in the U.S. report having suffered workplace bullying. And nearly 1/3 of those employees report that they are being bullied currently. Over 1/5 of workers in the U.S. have witnessed bullying directly, and nearly 3/4 report that they are aware that bullying occurs in their workplace.
If you don't find those numbers alarming, consider that the data indicate employers most typically respond to allegations of bullying by denying that it occurred or discounting and rationalizing the conduct. Moreover, the perpetrators are overwhelmingly male superiors.
But perhaps least surprising: minorities, females, and other more vulnerable employees are most likely to suffer bullying in the workplace. (The targets of workplace bullying were most often described by co-workers as compassionate & kind, cooperative and agreeable.)
The good news is that despite employer inaction, slightly more than half of the co-workers of bullying victims do something to try to help.
Learn more about workplace matters here.
You can read more about the study here: http://www.workplacebullying.org/wbiresearch/wbi-2014-us-survey/
If you don't find those numbers alarming, consider that the data indicate employers most typically respond to allegations of bullying by denying that it occurred or discounting and rationalizing the conduct. Moreover, the perpetrators are overwhelmingly male superiors.
But perhaps least surprising: minorities, females, and other more vulnerable employees are most likely to suffer bullying in the workplace. (The targets of workplace bullying were most often described by co-workers as compassionate & kind, cooperative and agreeable.)
The good news is that despite employer inaction, slightly more than half of the co-workers of bullying victims do something to try to help.
Learn more about workplace matters here.
You can read more about the study here: http://www.workplacebullying.org/wbiresearch/wbi-2014-us-survey/
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