Workplace Bullying

As a manager, you have a responsibility to intervene as soon as possible after suspecting or becoming aware there is unreasonable behaviour happening in your workplace. Here are six things to consider when responding to workplace bullying. Is The Behaviour Bullying or Not? The precise nature of the behaviour should be understood prior to developing […]

Workplace Bullying Is a Serious Issue Workplace bullying is a serious issue and will not be tolerated by those organisations that have a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace culture. If an employee, contractor or volunteer has been found to have engaged in workplace bullying, it may be treated as misconduct, and in very serious cases, […]

Sentrient is proud to release the new Preventing and Responding to Workplace Bullying for Supervisors and Managers online course as its latest online course that forms part of a series of online compliance courses to help supervisors and managers take proactive steps to mitigate against breaches of safety, invasion of privacy, and incidents of bullying, […]

What Is Workplace Bullying? Workplace bullying is defined as repeated unreasonable behaviour by an individual or a group of individuals towards a worker, or group of which the worker is a member, and that behaviour creates a risk to health and safety. Repeated means that the unreasonable behaviour occurs more than once. There is no […]

Bullying usually involves not just a bully but a target and potentially bystanders. Bystanders play an important role in dissolving or exaggerating workplace bullying. Workplace bullying policies should recognize the role of bystanders as a priority. Awareness about bystanders’ responsibilities and roles should then follow. Bystanders play an important role because they are at ground […]

Bullying and conflict in the workplace often appear similar. It is important to understand that they are both different. Recognising and understanding if it is a bullying situation or an unsuspecting conflict situation is important. That is why it is important to educate staff on what bullying is. In this blog, we will look at […]

The New York Times recently published an article about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez where she took to the House floor to read into the Congressional Record a sexist vulgarity that Representative Ted Yoho, a Florida Republican, had used to refer to her. It was reported that Ms Ocasio-Cortez had several others who shared stories where they had […]

Everyone at some point in their lives has experienced bullying either directly or indirectly. Good and evil is an unfortunate part of the world we live in. Unfortunately, workplace bullying is evil, and whilst we can not remove it entirely, we can show zero tolerance to those who conduct themselves in a way that is […]

Bullying doesn’t stop in school. In fact, one might say that some of the most challenging individuals in the workplace have learned bullying from a young age. Remember that kid who used to tease you, push you around or even encourage others not to play with you in the schoolyard? Well, 30 years on, they […]