Workplace Bullying, The Secret is Out

Workplace bullying is now becoming one of the highest liabilities for employers.

According to Sharon Parella, a management-side employment lawyer in New York, this will replace sexual harassment in the near future.

More and more employees are coming out of hiding and exposing this cruel reality in their place of employment. By definition workplace bullying is when one a person or group of people in a workplace single out another person for unreasonable, embarrassing, or intimidating treatment.

Usually, the bully is a person in a position in authority who feels threatened by the victim, but in some cases the bully is a co-worker. The consequences of these actions can be devastating to both employee and employer.

In a recent article on the “Stop Workplace Bullying” Facebook social media site, Tim Field, a workplace bullying advocate whom has since passed, concludes that workplace bullying takes on many different roles and bullies can take on many different personality traits and motives.

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