What is Bullying?
Many workplaces have a workplace ‘bully’; it might be the passive aggressive, or intimidating one, who is difficult to deal with, or who is constantly putting people down. Their behaviour however, must reach a high level of seriousness, and be ongoing, to be substantial grounds for taking disciplinary action against that person.
Often we have employer client’s being accused of ‘bullying’ their employees or asked to investigate their employees who are said to be bullying other work mates.
Getting to the Bottom of things
Background
Mr A. was a senior sales executive. He had been employed for 31 years by the same company and progressed in his career from being an operator in the factory owned by the employer right up to second senior sales position.
The New Zealand side of the company was accountable to a senior management team based in Australia – Mr G. was the Managing Director for Australia/New Zealand.
At an awards evening on 3 February 2012 Mr A. received a Silver Fern award in recognition of his sales achievements.
