Applying HRM Strategies to Eliminate Workplace Bullying in Healthcare

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Abstract
The purpose of below mentioned paper is to evaluate the way to apply and propose
human resource management strategies to eliminate workplace bullying issue in a healthcare
setup. The paper elaborated details about the review of literature in response to the topic along
with the proposition and application of strategies in the organization in order to successfully
eliminate the problem. Workplace bullying is a serious threat in a health care setup and it is
important for the management to eliminate the same. So, different ways and strategies are
implemented to dissolve the issue and adequately increase the level of satisfaction of the
employees.

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Contents
Abstract............................................................................................................................................1
Literature Review............................................................................................................................2
Application......................................................................................................................................3
Proposition.......................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Literature Review
The previous assessment evaluated the review of literatures on the topic “Workplace
Bulling in Healthcare Setting”. The literature review elaborated that there is presence aggressive
behaviour and hostilities that occur during interpersonal interaction in healthcare setting.
Bullying in workplace environment is related to aggression, emotional abuse, victimization,
mistreatment and intimidation. The literature review clearly explained the stances that helped in
examining the ways in which bullying is conducted in the healthcare environment. In healthcare
society, bullying can be seen as an abuse of power between the victim and the committer. In the
healthcare society, an employee gets to face severe critic comments, intense pressure in the
environment and undesirable communal contacts as well (Salin, 2008). Bullying lays an
undesirable impact on the mental health of people in the environment. Especially in case of
health industry, people already face extreme traumatic conditions while treating the patients,
getting mental tension from other people also can affect their working in the organization.
The literature review clearly explained the five existing factors that affect the practices of
workplace bullying in the environment. Understanding yet efficient language has been used to
outline the critical reviews authored by different people regarding the topic. Through the analysis
of the review, it can be easily understood that bullying in healthcare setting affect the whole
working of the organization and deteriorate the organizational commitment feature on the part of
employees only (Harrington, Warren, & Rayner, 2015). It is important to consider that the
literature review highlight different aspects of bullying in an organizational setting as it
highlighted the five practices of bullying, along with personality issues present in the process of
bullying and presence of unstable environment in the healthcare workplace setup. Thus, the fact
should be noted that there are numerous literatures present in the environment that highlight
relevant information about the case however, the literature review only utilized the information
belonging in the time frame of 20015-2019 was used in the paper. Along with the activities and
the issues the literature review also highlighted recommendations to effectively prevent the
prevalence of such practices in the environment (Bratton, & Gold, 2017). The study elaborated
that workplace bullying occur more frequently in healthcare industry than in any other private
industry. So, in order to eliminate that it is important to analyse the reasons for bullying and what