Description
Workplace bullying costs organizations billions every year in lost productivity, efficiency and employee turnover. Workplaces which have a high occurrence of bullying are more likely to have problems with absenteeism, illness and healthcare expenses. Make sure your employees know how to spot workplace bullying and make sure they understand the type of behavior that is unacceptable in the workplace.
- The effects of workplace bullying
- The definition of workplace bullying
- Why do people bully?
- The consequences of bullying
- The aggressive nature of bullying
- Power and control aspects of bullying
- Why managers are more often bullies
- Why bullying is sometimes hard to spot
- Prevention techniques
- The consequences of bullying
The following behavior are covered in the course
- Inappropriate language, put-downs, insults, and name-calling.
- Taunting, teasing, or making jokes.
- Sabotaging another employee's work.
- Copying, plagiarizing, or stealing work from a co-worker.
- Deliberately denying co-workers resources.
- Yelling, screaming, sarcasm, or other verbal abuse.
- Menacing a co-worker with threatening looks, gestures, and body language.
- Hazing or initiations that seek to embarrass or humiliate.
- Unreasonably creating conflict
- Refusing to work with a co-worker.
- Physically threatening, shoving, striking, or touching a co-worker.
- Gossiping or spreading rumors about co-workers.
- The planting of false information.
- Using private or confidential information to defame or destroy the reputation of a co-worker.
- Setting unrealistic standards and deadlines which are unachievable or that are arbitrarily changed without notice or reason.
- Assigning excessive, unreasonable, and unending amounts of work.
- Giving unjustly negative performance appraisals.
- Taking unwarranted disciplinary action.
- Singling out or treating someone differently
- Holding a subordinate employee to different standards than his or her peers.
- Excessive, unneeded, and negative micromanagement.
The Effects of Workplace Bullying
- Employee turnover
- Lost productivity
- Low company-wide morale
- Destroys creativity
- Cost to employee health
- Destroys organizational reputation
The course includes a full HD video and an employee quiz.
What you'll learn
You will learn how to prevent workplace bullying incidents and how to handle them when they occur.
TrainingABC
For 22 years, TrainingABC has provided high quality employee training content to companies, schools and government organizations around the world. Currently, over 2000 organizations use Trainingabc courses in their training.
Our courses focus on topics like HR compliance, customer service and leadership take complex topics and make them simple by using video. With sleek, modern, high-definition video, the courses break the language of the topic down into layman's terms making it much easier for employees to understand and retain information.
