Bullying behaviours
The following lists a range of behaviours often described as bullying behaviours. This list can be used to:
- Reflect on your own experience of work and relationships and provides you with ‘language’ to make sense, give feedback and seek support
- Reflect on your own behaviours, how they might be received and the impact they may have
- A lack of responsiveness, for example not responding to emails, questions, or phone calls
- Aggressive behaviour, for example shouting, swearing or intruding on personal space
- Allocation of blatantly unfair workload, unnecessarily and constantly changing priorities
- Blame, for example being used as a scapegoat or the reason for poor quality work
- Controlling contact with professional colleagues, for example forbidding contact or conversations with others
- Critical comments about work without justification and/or micromanagement
- Cyberbullying via social media, emails or internet posts
- Direct harassment based on protected characteristics
- Limiting access to essential information
- Limiting opportunities for training and/or promotion
- Minimisation of role and contribution, for example downplaying suggestions and ideas
- Name-calling and unwanted jokes
- Persistent unreasonable communication outside working hours
- Physical intrusion into personal space and belongings
- Removal of responsibilities and status
- Taking credit for work or actions
- Threats or comments relating to job security
- Undermining in public and private, for example by spreading rumours