Workplace Bullying and Harassment: Report and Analysis

This report delves into the critical issues of workplace bullying and harassment, alongside personal and professional development. It defines bullying as unwelcome behavior intended to harm, differentiating between verbal and social forms, and emphasizes the importance of staff awareness of their rights. The report highlights the impact of bullying, especially when senior members are involved, and underscores the importance of reporting such incidents to senior managers and legal authorities. Furthermore, it connects these concepts to personal and professional development, specifically focusing on self-managed learning, which can enhance lifelong development. The report references relevant literature to support its arguments and provides a practical understanding of how to address and mitigate workplace bullying and foster a supportive professional environment.

Personal and professional development
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INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development refers to development activities for
individual in their career. This report includes self managed learning which can
enhance lifelong development of individual not just in professional context but in
personal and social context as well.
Social bullying includes excluding someone from a event in this case if a senior
member excludes a junior member from the meeting in which they can be present
this will be considered as social harassment. In this case senior members of
organisation who feel they are working more than new members may threaten new
members to cause any type of harm. This is known as workplace bullying.
Workplace Harassment refers to belittling behaviour at the workplace. Any typeof
mistreatment as workplace is considered as workplace harassment.
In case staff feels that they are being bullied or harassed than they can-
Report to their senior manager and legal authority at national trust. In case the
person harassing is senior manager than the staff should report to their senior
manager.
They should boost their confidence so that they can resist the person who is
harassing them. Harassment usually happens with them who are seen weak to
respond to harassment. Showing trust will solve this problem.
Workplace bullying and harassment
Bullying refers to unwelcome behaviour which occurs over a
period and is meant to harm someone specially those who are
powerless to respond. Bullying in verbal form includes teasing and
threatening someone to cause any type of harm (Wang and et.al.,
2018). Staff members should remain aware of their rights.
References
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2018. The impact on employees’ job
performance of exercising self-directed learning within personal
development plan practice. The International Journal of Human Resource
Management, pp.1-27.
Perry, M., 2017. Personal Professional Development Plans. Canadian Journal of
Medical Laboratory Science. 79(1). p.8.