BULLYING A JURASSIC PROBLEM?
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ullying, i’ll just let you think about that word for a moment . . . . . . . . . .When most of you reading this saw that word, I imagine your minds were transported back to a time, years ago, on the school playground or classroom. While no bullying is acceptable, most of us would like to think that school is the only time this would be taking place. Unfortunately for a large percentage of employees, this is simply not the case.
With workplace bullying on the rise and the ‘great resignation’ in full swing, employees are changing their priorities at work. For our current and future workforce, how an organisation approaches employee wellbeing is becoming a key reason to take on or leave a role.
There is a perceived view that pockets of “boys at the top” club culture exist, run by dinosaurs and with those pockets can come... psychologically unsafe workplaces 10
insight S A F E R H I G H WAY S M A G A Z I N E saferhighways.co.uk
Bullying at work is a major workplace problem that makes the daily working lives of many workers intolerable. Workplace bullying can lead to ill-health and workrelated stress, it affects morale and is the cause of untold misery to workers.