Solving Workplace Bullying

Solving Workplace Bullying

40% of Canadians Bullied At Work, Expert Says. (2011, December 6). CBC News Windsor
(Retrieved from CBC.ca).

Resolving workplace Bullying is a comprehensive approach to this serious issue that injures employees and their families, damages teams and organization through loss of reputations, production, absenteeism, complaints, grievances, arbitrations and investigations. Deborah Hudson from Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP details the legal implications for Canadian business.
(Retrieved from https://irc.queensu.ca/sites/default/files/articles/workplace-bullying-and-harassment-costly-conduct-by-deborah-hudson.pdf).

Mattice (2009) suggests that the costs of bullying in the US are:

  • Bully’s direct manager counseling bully: 80 hours, $8,000
  • Victim’s direct manager counselling victim: 150 hours, $15,000
  • Witnesses counselling victim: 100 hours, $6,000
  • HR talking with managers, bully and target: 10 hours, $1,500
  • HR talking with Executives about the problem: 5 hours, $1,500
  • HR recruiting and training replacement of victim employee; $40,000
  • Team and department members training new employee: 160 hours, $10,000
  • Actual costs (advertising, temp agency): $1,000
  • Estimated total cost of bully: $83,000

(Retrieved from http://noworkplacebullies.blogspot.com/2009/07/cost-of-workplace-bullying.html )

Behaviour in the workplace can take a variety of forms from civil and respectful to violence.

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