The Negative Problem Of Cyber Bullying In The Workplace

While working as a server at a beautiful Italian restaurant you start your normal routine with a new table. After taking their complete order, their food is ready, and it is finally time to serve them. You ask them if they want freshly grated parmesan cheese and as your grating the cheese, you poor the cheese in their lap instead of their food. It was a completely an accident that you apologized for right away. This example, would be considered a mistakes, which are unavoidable at times. As an employer it is easy to move past simple mistakes that employees will make, but vindictively making choices that are unacceptable for the company cannot go overlooked. In fact, an employer always has the right to let an employee go, that goes against

Treating someone with disrespectfully or threatening in any way using the internet is considered to be a type of bullying. In the workplace, cyber bullying of any kind is not acceptable and should be stopped as soon as possible. It needs to be clear within the company’s policies that bullying will not be tolerated between employees or any other staff member. According to this study that polled approximately 3,000 people on the subject of bullying “96% of respondents indicated they’d been bullied in the workplace” and “62% of bullying came in the form of sabotaging work and/or reputation; 52% in ‘browbeating, threats and intimidation’, and 4% in actual physical assault” (Biro, 2014, p.1). These numbers are stunning and should not be a part of a work environment. Management would need to take matters into their hands and approach the employee privately and keep in mind the situation, with the intent to punish the employee if they need to. In this case, if the employee has stopped, apologized to everybody involved and promises never to engage in such acts again than that allows for the employer to make the final decision about that employee. If all these steps were taken, the employer could put that employee on a probation period where he would be watched closely. If he stepped outside probation at all, then termination would be the

In fact, not only will termination be a must but further action may need to be taken. All forms of harassment are bad and should never go overlooked, but sexual harassment is something that would need to be handled quickly, so that everyone in the workplace feels comfortable. According to an article written by Woodard, “Sexual harassment is defined as the unwanted physical, verbal, or written conduct that is sexual in nature, including inappropriate physical contact, sexual or lewd comments, or inappropriate behavior” (2010). Depending on what the employers felt was the right approach, sexual harassment may need to be also punished through the police. There are laws that were put in place to protect employees in the workplace against sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is not right for anyone to go through, but employers have the responsibility to make sure that every employee knows that it will not go overlooked, but punished harshly. The company can lose current and possibly future employees because of the backlash and hostile environment that was created, and employees may feel uncomfortable due to legal action that may be taken by the victim or victims (Woodard, 2010, p.1). Employees should always feel that when they are at work they are in a safe environment and will not be harassed in any way. This is not an easy task for companies, since it takes a lot of courage for the victim or