Workplace Bullying Situation and Mental Health in the Work Place

Running Head: Mental Health in the Work place 0
Workplace Bullying Situation
MAY 30, 2018

Mental Health in the Work place 1
INTRODUCTION
Workplace bullying situation refers to the verbal, social, physical or psychological
misconduct by the manager, or any person in the organisation. It can be in the form of hurtful
remarks, exclusion, or sexual harassment leading to low morale among employees, decrease
in productivity, stress whereas transfer, demotion, retrenchment is not considered as
workplace bullying (Australian Human Rights Commission, 2018).
WORKPLACE BULLYING SITUATION
Workplace bullying is one of the major problem in every organisation and to create
awareness so that people or employees know how to deal with such problems or conflicts. It
has been exemplified by the movie “9 to 5”, which is an American comedy film, directed by
Colin Higgins. The movie highlights the issue “Workplace bullying situation” representing
the story of three women fighting back against their sexist, hypocritical and deceptive boss
(Rolling Stone, 2018).
Franklin Hart who plays a dominant role, exerts control, molests the female
subordinates in the organisation and uses Violet’s ideas takes credit, threatens and behaves
badly with Judy on her first day after an equipment impairment; and sexually harasses,
Doralee (secretary) spreading rumours about an affair that never happened.
Q1. The dissatisfactory behaviour of the boss towards the female subordinates
working in the organisation compelled them to take charge of the business, which
disorganized the functioning of the organisation thus, making it a “workplace bullying
situation”.