Intimidation in the workplace

Name(s): 
Workplace bullying
Intimidation by bosses
White-collar bullying
Shopfloor bullying
Nature 
Bullying in the workplace is one way of pressuring others, usually subordinates, to take responsibility for work or to meet deadlines. Bullying may be used as a last resort by anyone under stress at work, but for some it is the only effective technique for motivating others, and it may become habitual. Bullying contributes to worker dissatisfaction and absenteeism. It is widely acknowledged as undesirable both by organizations and by the bullies themselves, who may admit they use this method because they are unskilled in other ways of staff management. Companies and organizations have tended to not deal with the problem directly; instead of retraining or removing the bully, they rather take the easier route of transferring complaining staff to other departments or allowing them to leave the organization.
Background 
Bullying differs from harassment and assault in that the latter can result from a single incident or small number of incidents - which everybody recognises as harassment or assault - whereas bullying tends to be an accumulation of many small incidents over a long period of time. Each incident tends to be trivial, and on its own, out of context, does not constitute an offence or grounds for disciplinary or grievance action.
Incidence 
Nine out of ten calls made to the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line involve office-based workers. The public sector accounts for more than half of the calls, with one in five complainants working in the social services.
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Value(s) 
Type 
(D) Detailed problems