Question

Why is it necessary to eliminate office bullying? Is office bullying just a simple form of organizational conflict? Why or why not?

What action(s) should you take as a manager to create a "bully-free" work environment?

In addition, decide which of the resolution techniques discussed in this lesson you would use most often to resolve conflicts. Explain why.

Answer 1

Workplace or office bullying is commonly known as people who make use of aggressive maneuvers for no reason against colleagues insistently. Bulling is not a conflict or a clash for the personality or for any reason if anyone is upset or mentally imbalanced or worked more than expected. Because every individual has different tolerance levels in different situations. Most of the time many people disagree on some decision and this gives an opportunity to alternatives.

Workplace bullying becomes very expensive for many organization where it has been observed that some of the organizations have lost their talented employees and some of them showed decay in productivity. This may lead to reduction in the organizational values. There are some ways to eliminate bullying effortlessly, such as –

-          Confront the issue by having interviews or meetings to gather the evidence

-          Analyzing the data by having the roundtables with the appropriate experts and come up with the policies or framework, in consultation with the available resources. For example, a self-test can also be run to check on the current state of the problem

-          Present the findings by proper supporting documentations

-          Eliminate the bullying by exposing the bullies and enabling agents