What is Workplace Bullying?

 

Workplace Bullying is mistreatment of one or more persons (the Targets) by one or more perpetrators. It is mistreatment severe enough to compromise a targeted worker's health, jeopardize her or his job and career, and strain relationships with friends and family.

The Workplace Bullying and Institute (WBI) defines workplace bullying as "repeated, health-harming mistreatment, verbal abuse, or conduct which is threatening, humiliating, intimidating, or sabotage that interferes with work, or some combination of the three".

It is a laser-focused, systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction. It has nothing to do with work itself. It is driven by the bully's personal agenda and actually prevents work from getting done and after all, that is precisely what  chapter leaders are responsible for doing – getting project and chapter work done through the efforts of others.

The WBI is an excellent resource for anyone wishing to learn more about workplace bullying and their website also includes a page with a list of excellent reference materials (http://www.workplacebullying.org/recommended-books/).