WORKPLACE BULLYING CHECKLIST

[brothermagrew]

WORKPLACE BULLYING CHECKLIST

If you believe that you could be the target/victim of bullying in your workplace this checklist might help you to identify and assess the risks.


Would you describe yourself as outspoken on workplace issues?
Are you being unfairly targeted for poor work performance?
Would you agree that you are treated less favourably than others in your workplace?
Are colleagues actively encouraged to lay complaints about your work?
Has your work been undermined or criticised in front of colleagues?
Have you been provided with inadequate or inaccurate information about your work?
Do you feel isolated from your colleagues in how you are being treated at work?
Have you been unfairly accused of doing or not doing something at work recently?
Has someone deliberately lied to you about a matter relating to your work?
Have you been humiliated in front of other staff?
Have rumours about you been deliberately circulated in your workplace?
Do you feel as if you are constantly in damage control mode at work?
Do you feel fearful about what could happen to you at work?
Have you used sick leave as one means of avoiding these problems at work?
Is there a culture of harassment and bullying in your workplace?
Are you aware of any other staff members suffering from work-related stress at your workplace?
Have you been deliberately embarrassed or humiliated in front of members of the public?
Do you feel that what you say at work is often not believed?
Do you feel that you are being over-supervised or treated as if you cannot be trusted to do your work?
Do you believe that you are being deliberately bullied at work?
Has there been a high staff turnover at your workplace?
Is absenteeism among staff particularly high at your workplace?
Do you feel that you are constantly struggling to keep up with the changes to your work or increasing workloads?
Are you being allocated inappropriate tasks or have resources you’ve previously had access to in performing your duties been removed?
Are your complaints being ignored at work?
Do you feel that you are being deliberately left out of decision making sometimes?
Is there a high level of conflict at your workplace?
Do you feel that your judgement is constantly being questioned?
Is your work beginning to suffer because of your anxiety about being seen as incompetent?
Do you feel extremely anxious about going to work?
Are you beginning to doubt your own competence because of what others are doing and saying to you or about you?
Has a member of the public or colleague made any unsubstantiated “complaints” or allegations against you?
Are your opinions and suggestions often trivialised and marginalised?
Are your personal messages sometimes not passed on?
Are your sleeping patterns disturbed by what is happening to you at work… i.e. unable to fall asleep and/or waking constantly through the night?
Are the “goalposts” at work constantly changing and often without notification?
Are you being pressured to do more and with fewer resources?
Are you constantly being allocated jobs with high needs, compared with those allocated to your colleagues?
Have you used annual leave or other leave options as a means of relieving workplace problems?
Are decisions, which impact upon your duties and responsibilities, made without consultation?
Have you been threatened and/or abused by a member of the public and received no support from management?
Has important information e.g. for your Worker’s Compensation claim gone “missing” or not got beyond the “front desk”?
Do you believe that you are gaining an unfair reputation amongst your colleagues as a stirrer or troublemaker because of your efforts to defend yourself or others in your workplace?
Has important information re: job/career prospects been concealed from you.
Do you feel that some of your colleagues might be worried about being seen to be too closely associated with you?


BULLYING CHECKLIST RESULTS

If you answer yes to 10 or more of the questions above the chances are high that there is bullying at your workplace.

If you answer yes to 20 or more of these questions then there is certainly some serious bullying going on at your workplace and you are probably being targeted.

If you answer yes to 30 or more of these questions then you are quite likely to be the target of a pathological, serial bully. YOU NEED HELP.

[Sandyman]

Sounds like a normal day working for Royal Mail. Guess most of us have undergone most of those things on the checklist.

[Pat Ostman]

Bloody hell, same here. Normal day at work for me most of that

And I am not joking.

[DGP1]

Is this some sort of management check list, to let them know their targets for bullying, things are so bad in my office that the ADOMs are requesting to be moved because of the DOM.

[london sub]

I agree with sandyman, happens day in day out in our office, but sadly nothing gets dealt with till something really bad happens. Then its to late!

[brothermagrew]

Is this some sort of management check list, to let them know their targets for bullying, things are so bad in my office that the ADOMs are requesting to be moved because of the DOM.

Mortified that you suggested such, as if, it is purely as the title states WORKPLACE BULLYING CHECKLIST which in it's origins stemmed from a group called SAEBOW South Australian Employees Bullied Out of Work. Really doesn't matter which country you are in bullying and harassment are the same the world over in workplaces.

[DGP1]

Is this some sort of management check list, to let them know their targets for bullying, things are so bad in my office that the ADOMs are requesting to be moved because of the DOM.

Mortified that you suggested such, as if, it is purely as the title states WORKPLACE BULLYING CHECKLIST which in it's origins stemmed from a group called SAEBOW South Australian Employees Bullied Out of Work. Really doesn't matter which country you are in bullying and harassment are the same the world over in workplaces.

Sorry, it just seems that my DOM has this list and he works through it I just thought it was an official RM policy document.

[brothermagrew]

Is this some sort of management check list, to let them know their targets for bullying, things are so bad in my office that the ADOMs are requesting to be moved because of the DOM.

Mortified that you suggested such, as if, it is purely as the title states WORKPLACE BULLYING CHECKLIST which in it's origins stemmed from a group called SAEBOW South Australian Employees Bullied Out of Work. Really doesn't matter which country you are in bullying and harassment are the same the world over in workplaces.

Sorry, it just seems that my DOM has this list and he works through it I just thought it was an official RM policy document.

Can't argue with you there on your summations.

There's a saying that "bullied victims are weak"
And yet targets of bullying have no interest in power or exercising power. They go to work to work and they are not interested in office politics or conflict. Targets of bullying have high moral values, vulnerablity (e.g.need to pay the mortgage), a strong sense of fair play and reasonableness, a low propensity to violence, a reluctance to pursue grievance, disciplinary or legal action, a strong forgiving streak and a mature understanding of the need to resolve conflict with dialogue. Weak people disingenuously confuse these traits with weakness. Targets of bullying will withstand daily abuse for months, often years, but the first time a bully gets a taste of their own medicine they immediately run whingeing to authority for protection. That's weakness.