A Study of Workplace Bullying and its Impact

Vol-4 | Issue-04 | April 2019 | Published Online: 15 April 2019    PDF ( 268 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Santosh Kalabhau Apte 1; Prof. Suresh Namdeo Mehetre 2

1Associate Professor, ZES’s Zeal Institute of Business Administration, Computer Application & Research (ZIBACAR), Narhe, Pune-411041 (India)

2Assistant professor, ZES’s Zeal Institute of Business Administration, Computer Application & Research (ZIBACAR), Narhe, Pune-411041 (India)

Abstract

Bullying is very hard to define. It will come under the category of harassment. On the other side, bullying can often be seen as an act which is caused to dominate someone, causes grief and fear in the intended person. Bullying often happens privately or publically and by a person who has authority or power in hands and the evidences for the bullying are hard to find. ―Bullying doesn’t happen by accident‖ it has to be and purposeful, intentional action and even though the bullying people say they ―mean no harm‖ when scolded, they will take on casual basis. Researcher’s main objectives were 1.To study and understand the concept of workplace bullying, 2.To study the relationship between workplace bullying and its impact on work performance. 3. To find out major findings on the basis of the literature study. Research method used was Desk Research.

Keywords
Bullying, Workplace, harassment
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