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    Workplace bullying is termed as misusing of position or power. Workplace harassment often leads to lowering work performance and increase feeling of anger, fear and powerlessness. Organisations establish policies of abuse and harassment in the workplace to prevent inappropriate behaviour and establish guidelines and procedures to stop the behaviour if it occurs (Woodrow & Guest, 2014, 38-56). Harassment becomes illegal when creating a work environment that a reasonable employee would not tolerate

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    Workplace bullying is a very serious act that has a negative impact on individuals and the organization as a whole. Baack (2012), describes workplace bullying as an interpersonal conflict that is a repeated mistreatment of one or more persons (ch.7, p.19). Unfortunately, despite workplace bullying being so harmful, it is often a common occurrence. In the article, Workplace Bullying: Costly and Preventable, Wiedmer (2010), cites a survey conducted in 2007 by the Workplace Bullying Institute-Zogby;

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    Agency Paper: The Pastoral Institute Introduction Pastoral counseling is a significant and important part of the counseling field, which is what sparked my interest when choosing an agency. It was important to me to find out how they used their spiritual basis in counseling to help their clients and the community, and whether or not they are able to help and reach culturally diverse groups effectively. Also, due to the strict nature of religion, I also wanted to find out whether their counseling

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    entitlement. It is said that serial bullies often display behaviour congruent with a number of the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Narcissistic personality disorder can also affect 1% of the population (World, 2013). In the workplace environment, if the boss or co-worker displays a narcissistic personality disorder it may lead to a serious case of bullying as it is one of the most difficult personality types a person can be confronted

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    plan. This could lead to employer being sued for negligent hiring and negligent retention, since the employer had several complaints of the employee potently becoming violent. Employees are entitled to the protections of having a safe and healthy workplace. This include that the employee should expect that he or she would go home with not being injured. The employee should except to be provided with Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for all and any chemicals handled though out the day. Recommendations:

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    I work for a state agency that licenses teachers and other school related jobs (administrators, counselors, etc.) as a customer service representative. My job is high stress and most of the people who work within the agency have been there for eight years or more, even though it is always changing and has high expectations of its employers. Due to the high levels of stress within the company, this can lead to counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The book defines CWB as: Voluntary behavior that

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    Imagine constantly being worried and on edge as if you are always on the brink of danger never sure of what may be going on. This is what affects me in my daily life, the interaction I am going to talk about happened to me a long time ago and it’s nearly impossible to described what happened because I was too young to remember the interaction. However even though I am unable to remember the interaction it’s effects still haunt me to this day and I will use metaphorical language to try and describe

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    Favian Ortega Business 140 Unit 3 Homework San Joaquin Valley College   Compensation refers to the payment or award given to an employee for the value of their work during employment. Compensation is awarded in many forms, direct or indirectly are a great example. It can be used as a strategic tool to either motivate and empower employees or be used as a bargaining tool by employees when deciding where they will apply their skills and knowledge. While creating a compensation plan Human Resources

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    Once, Twice, or Three Times as Harmful? Ethnic Harassment, Gender Harassment, and Generalized Workplace Harassment By Jana L. Raver and Lisa H. Nishii This article discussed the different types of harassment, while testing multiple hypothesizes regarding workplace harassment. Workplace harassment is under federal law and Department of Labor (DOL) policy, harassment by DOL employees of DOL employees based on race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity and pregnancy), national origin, age

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    WORKPLACE BULLY Bullying is repeated irrational behaviour that could reasonably be known to be humiliating, intimidating, terrifying or belittling to a person, or group of persons, which creates a risk to health and safety. Repeated refers to the ongoing nature of the behaviour and can refer to a range of different types of behaviour over time, It does not refer to the specific type of behaviour, which may vary. Bullying may comprise a blend of behaviours. Bullying and harassment at work may be defined

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