Bullying at work

[the jiffle king]

My girlfriend is doing a HR course and she is having to write a piece comparing bullying handbooks and how to compare them. The issue is that she does not work for HR and where she works does not have a handbook for managers.

If you have them, please can you mail me links of:

1) Bullying handbook for managers
2) Bullying policy for your workplace

The names will be taken out to protect the innocent, but the internet has not come up with anything substantial thus far

T-J-K

[Jinx]

www.acas.org.uk/publications/al04.html

[WildfireS3]

We had a case of accused bullying at work, at a company I used to work for. The company policy was to ignore it, then when enough people had complained in writing, say that basically everybody who had complained was lying and then subltly peanalise them. Needless to say I left.

[Snoremeister]

Not called bullying here - but harassment policies for our place are here

www.york.ac.uk/admin/eo/harassmt.htm

Covers just about everything and also has links to other sources.

[the jiffle king]

Thanks for that. It seems that Bullying is generally handled by grievence policy but that many places do not have a policy and that it is covered up when it does happen.

I wonder if the outing of bullying in schools will transfer to the workplace and if it is a wider issue that I had perceived

T-J-K

[lanciachris]

My friend told me about a scary numptie story on this subject.

Theres someone at her work who is by all accounts a total fruit loop (ok, emotionally and mentally unstable), and constantly screws stuff up. If anyone calls her out for screwing it up she complains of bullying to the company directors, skipping all levels in between.

They then penalise the rest of the people she works with, whilst recognising that her claims are false, but they say they 'have to be seen to be doing something', and they are afraid of firing her because they dont want the hassle of false claims of unfair dismissal!

So thats an interesting policy

[Frik]

lanciachris said:

So thats an interesting policy

All sounds a bit New Labour to me...