One in seven people admits to being bullied in their current job, while one in five says that bullying is an issue at their place of work, according to new research.
A YouGov study for the TUC found that bullying is most prevalent in the private sector, where 19% of people said that they were targets, compared to 12% in private companies and just 8% in the voluntary sector.
In addition, professional and associate professional workers are the most likely to be bullied; something the TUC believes is due to the large numbers of these workers in public sector jobs such as teaching and NHS positions.
The research also revealed that men (16%) are more likely to be bullied than women (12%). It suggests that those in middle-ranking jobs (earning £20,000 to £60,000) and the older age groups (45 to 54-year-olds) are most in the firing line and report the most bullying.
The TUC says the figures mean that 3.5 million people across the country are facing workplace bullying. TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "This level of bullying at work is completely unacceptable. Every organisation needs to have an anti-bullying policy, and every manager should ensure that there is zero-tolerance of bullying either by line managers or workmates."
From: http://www.morethanbusiness.com
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Nice words from Mr Barber, but... sorry, not good enough... anti-bullying policies mean nothing and are worthless unless organisations become accountable for their actions to external bodies that have power to impose penalties. Certainly in the context of HEIs such policies mean nothing... NOTHING...
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People left my faculty in my prestigious university destroyed by their experiences and yet the world goes on it does not stop when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity when people are raped murdered but the crime has happened and even though the sun is shining and people are going about their daily business the target waits in agony for justice to be done
when people are raped murdered but the crime has happened and even though the sun is shining and people are going about their daily business the target waits in agony for justice to be done
People left my faculty in my prestigious university destroyed by their experiences and yet the world goes on it does not stop when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity
when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity
when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity
when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity
when people are bullied to within an inch of their sanity
the target waits in agony for justice to be done
the target waits in agony for justice to be done
the target waits in agony for justice to be done
the target waits in agony for justice to be done
the target waits in agony for justice to be done
the crime has happened
FUCK YOU BASTARDS she sweetly shouted
Aphra Behn
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