Workplace Bullying - Abusive Workplace Behaviours

Abusive Workplace Behaviours

According to Bassman, common abusive workplace behaviours are:

1. Disrespecting and devaluing the individual, often through disrespectful and devaluing language or verbal abuse
2. Overwork and devaluation of personal life (particularly salaried workers who are not compensated)
3. Harassment through micromanagement of tasks and time
4. Overevaluation and manipulating information (for example concentration on negative characteristics and failures, setting up subordinate for failure).
5. Managing by threat and intimidation
6. Stealing credit and taking unfair advantage
7. Preventing access to opportunities
8. Downgrading an employee's capabilities to justify downsizing
9. Impulsive destructive behaviour

According to Hoel and Cooper, common abusive workplace behaviours are:

1. Having your opinions and views ignored
2. Withholding information which affects your performance
3. Being exposed to an unmanageable workload
4. Being given tasks with unreasonable or impossible targets or deadlines
5. Being ordered to do work below competence
6. Being ignored or facing hostility when you approach
7. Being humiliated or ridiculed in connection with your work
8. Excessive monitoring of a person's work (see micromanagement)
9. Spreading gossip
10. Having insulting or offensive remarks made about your person (i.e. habits and background), your attitudes or your private life
11. Having key areas of responsibility removed or replaced with more trivial or unpleasant tasks