Workplace Bulling

Workplace Bullying in the Aviation Sector

Timothy Gregory

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Human Resource Management

August 19, 2014

Abstract

Clearly, workplace bullying is not a new topic in Human Resource Management. There are many cases of bullying in organizations around the world. Victims of this vice are also willing to provide information about it while some are brave enough to seek justice by filing court cases. Additionally, aviation firms, just like other companies, have established measures of curbing and controlling workplace bullying. This paper, therefore, analyses the different aspects of this kind of bullying. First, it provides an in-depth definition of bullying by helping people understand the acts that fit in this category. It also offers the causal factors and its effects, then analyses the means that the aviation sector has used to prevent or control workplace bullying.

Workplace bullying is one of the issues that the Human Resource Management teams in institutions within the aviation sector have to deal with. Although there are various definitions for workplace bullying, it mainly describes any actions directed to an employee or a group of workers, aimed at demeaning, intimidating, or humiliating them. These may be the actions of their workmates or the organization’s administration. In some instances, a group of employees colludes to subject one worker to harass one of their colleagues. Workplace bullying consists of repeated and systematic actions that undermine the health and safety of employees and other stakeholders (Einarsen, Hoel, Zapf & Cooper, 2010). This is what distinguishes bullying from aggression as the latter a single act. Bullied employees begin to feel defenseless and even lose their dignity at the workplace. Organizations around the world have numerous records of bullying acts. For example, Drake International surveyed 800 workers, half of which admitted to...