Workplace bullying- New Era of Autocracy

In today's corporate world we have often found our self in Humiliating situation,  when our seniors occasionally intentionally troll ourselves Openly just prove their authority over us.

I think you have encountered this kind of similar situation in your entire career for you may be facing the situation currently at your job.Smacking down Verbally without any cause it's just like a fashion is a corporate nowadays just to prove a point and showing off. 

I call them corporate  bully,  you heard it right,  corporate Bully is a new age of bossism, you can now call these days,  often you have found that you are in the middle of unwanted situation when your senior, your boss is verbally abusing you without even knowing that reason. This is a classic example of  corporate bullying.  just think about it, you come on and from the weekend and you are started to organizing your Monday’s priority list, you are about to catch your daily list to be prepared, you are clearing your weekends pending task and you are preparing for a new fresh weekdays planning and suddenly your boss comes out of Nowhere and started to blame You about it not clearing your pending  assignment for week.  you know that you had been already cleared your previous week's assignments on Friday evening and there is nothing  pending on your  desk. 

This is a classic example of control freak,  control freak just want to control everything,  they wants to control that teammates,  subordinates, juniors, even they want to control the clients also. These Control freaks openly try to dominate their down-line with verbal abuse, They just want to show from the beginning of the week, that they are in the control of everything. 

This kind of person who doesn't have faith on their teammates, juniors, they always shows that that they are running the show,they constantly make the feeling for their down-line that they are incompetent to handle such a great assignments that he or she has to interfere in each and every step of the process and the escalate the matter and to Expedite the process.  This people can’t Trust  their own down-line. Openly in the process they they try to dominate the team by why verbally abusing and creating unnecessary scene.  because they cannot trust the people with the task and they constantly lives in a state of denial, that their team is not adequate enough to handle the  assignments.  

if Manager think that his or her team  has not adequate capability to handle  the task,  then as a manager uh he or she have to be a identify the weaknesses of  team and must have to try to empower them, educate them in the process, which is sufficiently gives the confidence to the down-line, that they can run the show with their Guidance. instead of that not empowerment or corrective actions, he or she just simply choose to not to listen & goes back to the defense mechanism.  they always claiming that their team is not sufficient. 

This is the also one of the main reason when employee is  humiliated  again and again in the  name of the process. 

The Other kind of  persons who is constantly Abusing their teammates in their down-line just to show that he or she is the senior. This kind of persons want to shows off the title and their power whenever they see the audience. 

Kind of persons are abusing their power just to do please themselves with this feelings of the self satisfaction of  victimizing the others. 

They just want to keep finding flaws and errors in your assignments & in your daily Routine jobs. For example if you don't say him or her good morning when they come to your desk immediately tell you that you are rude and unpleasantly subordinate, who doesn't have a time to  greeting to their seniors. 

this kind of persons are always on a power trip and always want to show that he or she is the manager, the CEO, or  for superior person in the organisation for which everybody has to fear of him or her. 

This kind of atmosphere is no longer helpful to the productive culture of the organisation because when employee is under constant pressure of humiliating, at any moment employees cannot focus on the task precisely and when some some of the seniors Keep checking on them self around every 15 minutes with the progress of the task,employees find themselves locked in a cage, they cannot Express their feelings or cannot escape the jail,  this leads a moral fatigue & falling down the employees. 

workplace bullying is the main reason where employees found themselves to quit their services and go outside. 

workplace bullying is is the common practice in the organisation when, in the environment open communication is not made,when the seniors are all already hearing from the one side, they don't want to communicate with that down and they are not open for the discussion, don't want to take inputs, they want to act like a director of the company and doesn't want to change because their defense mechanism not allowing themselves to change. 

The major research shows majority tactics of a corporate bullying is as follows. 


Tactics

Research by the Workplace Bullying Institute, suggests that the following are the 25 most common workplace bullying tactics.

1. Falsely accused someone of "errors" not actually made (71%).
2. Stared, glared, was nonverbally intimidating and was clearly showing hostility (68%).
3. Unjustly discounted the person's thoughts or feelings ("oh, that's silly") in meetings (64%).
4. Used the "silent treatment" to "ice out" and separate from others (64%).
5. Exhibited presumably uncontrollable mood swings in front of the group (61%).
6. Made-up rules on the fly that even they did not follow (61%).
7. Disregarded satisfactory or exemplary quality of completed work despite evidence (discrediting) (58%).
8. Harshly and constantly criticized, having a different standard for the target (57%).
9. Started, or failed to stop, destructive rumours or gossip about the person (56%).
10. Encouraged people to turn against the person being tormented (55%).
11. Singled out and isolated one person from other co-workers, either socially or physically (54%).
12. Publicly displayed gross, undignified, but not illegal, behaviour (53%).
13. Yelled, screamed, threw tantrums in front of others to humiliate a person (53%).
14. Stole credit for work done by others (plagiarism) (47%).
15. Abused the evaluation process by lying about the person's performance (46%).
16. Declared target "insubordinate" for failing to follow arbitrary commands (46%).
17. Used confidential information about a person to humiliate privately or publicly (45%).
18. Retaliated against the person after a complaint was filed (45%).
19. Made verbal put-downs/insults based on gender, race, accent, age or language, disability (44%).
20. Assigned undesirable work as punishment (44%).
21. Created unrealistic demands (workload, deadlines, duties) for person singled out (44%).
22. Launched a baseless campaign to oust the person; effort not stopped by the employer (43%).
23. Encouraged the person to quit or transfer rather than to face more mistreatment (43%).
24. Sabotaged the person's contribution to a team goal and reward (41%).
25. Ensured failure of person's project by not performing required tasks, such as sign-offs, taking calls, working with collaborators (40%)

These are the scare tactics used by the bullies in the corporate.  you cannot overpower them every time,  but you can save yourself by stepping up for yourself at the moment,  because nobody comes to save you, if somebody came you are pretty good at the relationship, without this otherwise you have to be your own savior. 

If you want to read how to overcome the corporate bullies, I can write down few practices and tricks in my next blog, that you can refer. 

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