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Bullying Behaviours Checklist

The document is a checklist for employees to assess whether they are experiencing bullying in the workplace. It lists a range of bullying behaviors and has the employee indicate which behaviors are being directed at them. It then has the employee answer additional questions about the bullies, including where and how often bullying occurs, how they respond to it, whether it was reported and how the organization addressed it. The goal is to help the employee evaluate their situation and experiences with workplace bullying.

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Bullying Behaviours Checklist

The document is a checklist for employees to assess whether they are experiencing bullying in the workplace. It lists a range of bullying behaviors and has the employee indicate which behaviors are being directed at them. It then has the employee answer additional questions about the bullies, including where and how often bullying occurs, how they respond to it, whether it was reported and how the organization addressed it. The goal is to help the employee evaluate their situation and experiences with workplace bullying.

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WORKPLACE BULLYING

Are you being bullied at work? Take a free assessment test – employee

BULLYING BEHAVIOURS CHECKLIST:

Does someone else regularly use these behaviours against you and your work-
mates and do you use these behaviours towards others at work ?

� Shout, groan, snarl, interrupts, won’t listen, impatient?

� Jiggles, points, threatens, scowls, traps you when no one is around?

� Dogmatic, patronising, arrogant, bossy?

� Gives critical personal or professional comments?

� Blame, denigrate, humiliate?

� Spread malicious rumours?

� Make fun of or use sarcasm?

� Exploit and humiliate staff publicly or privately?

� Control freak- micro-manage, intimidate?

� Ignore your verbal and non-verbal feedback,

� Lacks empathy, enjoys target’s powerlessness, fear, anger and tears?

� Sabotage or prevent employees fulfilling their work requirements?

� Single out a few targets?

� Attack or exclude successful achievers?

� Bullies to show their power and maintain their status?

� Protect non-threatening, lazy but compliant employees?

� Hide their incompetencies by blaming the target for problems?

� Nice to your face but nasty behind your back?

� Bullies people with less power and sucks up to those with more?

� Uses convincing, compulsive lies?


� Bullies to hide fraud or mismanagement?

� Avoid any requests to resolve conflicts?

� Has a history of bullying behaviours?

� Denigrate workplace bullying and harassment training sessions?

� Control your work environment by bullying?

� Harass people who are emotionally or physically vulnerable or injured?

‘WHODUNIT EXERCISE’
1. The bully:

• Boss bully 1…….. Bully 2……. Bully 3…… Bully 4 ………


Bully 5……..

• Shouts, groans, snarls, interrupts, won’t listen, impatient?

• Pushes, punches, hits, kicks, threatens?

• Excludes, spreads malicious rumours, threatens?

• Sends mean text messages, emails and cyber lies …….

2. I think that:

• The bully is fooling around and doesn’t mean to upset me yes/no

• The bully enjoys hurting me yes/no

• Just follows their bully boss yes/no

• Is still a nice colleague yes/no

• Was my friend yes/no

• Bullies other staff yes/no

• Became a bully after our disagreement yes/no


3. I am bullied ............(fill in what applies to you)

Every day................................................................................................................

Once a week...........................................................................................................

Once a month.........................................................................................................

I have been bullied at these jobs (mention different states, countries)

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I have been bullied for …..........… years

4. This is where I am bullied: draw map……....


Lunch room, open office, closed office, board room, etc?

5. This is what I say and do when I am bullied:


eg ‘ I try to defend myself,’ 'I am too scared so I say nothing’

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6. The onlookers who witnessed the bullying…

• While it was happening they did ……..........................................................

• Employees who tried to help me were …………..........................................

• While it was happening my friends did ……………......................................

• Who else is being bullied?...........................................................................

7. I reported it to my line manager, human resources, occupational health


and safety union, lawyer: When? Where? How often?

• These staff were helpful……………..............................................................

• These staff were unsympathetic…………….................................................

• These staff tried but weren’t successful …………….

• These staff made it worse and bullied me too…..

8. What actions did your organization take?…………….

• Did it validate your experience?

• Make you safe?……….................................................................................

• Do nothing?………………………..................................................................

• Make it worse?….........................................................………………………
9. Have you involved your family or friends?

• I told my partner, friends and they….….......................................................

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• They helped me by…...................................................................................

............................................................................................................................…

• They made it worse by not believing me or ….............................................

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10. What else is happening at your organization?


e.g. profits are down, a takeover is imminent, a new manager needs to prove
himself, a culture of bullying, the organization believes bullying is profitable,
their anti-bullying policies aren’t implemented.

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