Tag: Bullying In The Workplace

The problem of workplace bullying is growing at such a rapid rate that we no longer separate bullying from harassment, because it’s easier to just deal with the issue head on.

We have all had a boss who thought that the definition of motivation was to combine acerbic tongue-lashings with threats of job loss, poor performance reviews or just plain public ridicule. Here’s how not to be that manager in the eyes of your staff.

Awareness of mental illness may have increased, but Australian businesses are still failing to recognise and manage mental health risk in the workplace, according to new research.

With bullying and harassment in the workplace estimated to cost the economy up to $36 billion a year in lost productivity, there’s no doubt that the cost of such workplace issues, both legally and financially, are a lot for Australian organisations to handle.

More than half of all Australian employees claim to have been bullied by their managers at some time or another, with 24 percent keen to see their boss fired for the behaviour.