But you're tired of the bully?

My special tyrant has been assigned to train me. For the next 6-9 months, it has been exposed to ignore the comments of my ability, piece-meal training, designed for failure, insults, including insults, all with full knowledge of the matter of management.

What is bullying? Since there are no laws to prevent that, there is no clear legal definition. However defines Wikipedia (online encyclopedia) bullying as "the tendency of individuals or groupspersistent aggressive or unreasonable behavior against employees. Bullying can also include tactics such as verbal, non verbal, psychological, physical abuse and humiliation "The individual who is" the abuse, some of the following behaviors Bully experience.

be the target of insults

be shouted and cursed

all you do is wrong

treated differently from your employees

is setup for failure

disparaging remarks to the targetTarget

exclusion from office social events

physically abused

being humiliated in front of colleagues


Bullies at work in all shapes and sizes. Research shows that men 60% of bullying at work for the cause of women and account for the remaining 40%. After the Workplace Bully Institute, the majority of women are victims of bullying. The study found that men tend to promote equal opportunity harassment, while 70% of women are harassed by otherWomen!

Why are women for? Gary Namie, director of research of the bully Workplace Institute, said: "... probably is why women rarely order to respond to aggression with aggression". Other reasons might women and the diversity represented among the highest levels of the company's business and therefore face more hostility from their male colleagues.

The logic follows that women fewer opportunities means more competition for less.Although women about 50% of management positions, only 15% of the bill are at management level. According to Penny Hersh Chief Executive Officer of First Rain "If you learn sabotage or harassment of other women can see the culture of the group that is one way to do this in the amendments is to get women in your organization together to confirm that are a group, they are within the same culture, dealing with stereotypes and subtle discrimination. "

A job can be a tyrantEmployees, supervisors, managers or owners. If your employer is aware of bullying at work and not do anything to get it right, that if "corporate or institutional bullying" is. Its bad news for all concerned if the bullying is accepted as part of corporate culture. Personally, I have another insidious aspect of bullying experienced as bullying.

This happened to me in a staff meeting when I asked a very important question in my department. I wasperson just three employees, who handle the business side has stuck in my application. Their focus was degrading my personal to a large group.

The Director of the entire IT (information technology) units, which was addressed to my question was just as happy on the podium in all a. This response encourages the bully even more. What is bullying? "In a situation of harassment, inciting supporters leader, cohorts, and imitatorsignorant, inexperienced, immature or emotionally involved with people in need of wrong values in an adversarial interaction with the selected destination. "

The bully boss or leader, satisfaction gains from encouraging others to engage in adversarial interaction with the target. Many people use the "mobbing" to describe this package to attack from many on a single. After bullying the bully in the bullying boss moves in the mutually assured destruction, which the chiefBully gains intense satisfaction.

What can an employee on bullying? If the bullying includes harassment by sex, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, whistleblower retaliation, or it will not normally be illegal in America. But there are some things we can do as employees.


Remember, you are being bullied


Remember that we are not responsible for the problem


Do you think the bully is to take care to control not only yourPerformance

Be proactive in asserting their rights through all the documentation associated with bullying;

What has been said and done

Any witnesses to the bullying

Dates, times, places

Obtaining copies of memos, policies, reports, e-mail, time sheets

Get to know the bully paper studies, established patterns of behavior of the bully, etc.

Use the documentation and witnesses, or anything else that can refute the charges against bullying.

If possiblealways try to be a witness when you interact and meet for the bully.

Report the bat to the appropriate personnel, as a supervisor or manager.

If the bully is a supervisor or manager, the report of his / her human resources or a higher level of management, including the owner.

Another way to help yourself is to learn more. If your employer does not have any bullying prevention program in place you and your employees are victims of violence in MayWorkplace. Finally, contact your State Human Rights Commission, the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) or consulting with an attorney specializing in employment in determining when the tyrant is in violation of state or federal support for employment discrimination.

Several states are considering passing laws to protect workers from harassment. But the laws adopted by it for us to intervene and get our offense back!