HOW TO DEAL WITH BULLYING IN YOUR WORKPLACE
NZB What are the tell-tale signs that there is a bullying or harassment problem within your business?
JENNY: It is very common for bullying to occur without business owners or managers realising. Bullying is often the combination of a lot of small behaviours or actions that are easy to overlook or brush off if you look at them in isolation. It can also involve quite insidious behaviour, such as “gaslighting” (where a person makes comments that causes the other person to doubt their own thoughts, memories, perceptions, judgement and actions), that can be hard to substantiate.
If someone is subjected to bullying (the impacted employee) you may start to
