MGT2OBE Organisational Behaviour For Unfavorable Behavior Assignment

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Describe about the Organisational Behaviour For Unfavorable Behavior.

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Workplace bullying

In most organizations, managers apply coercive power to bully the employees. Managers tend to achieve their goals by controlling the employees. Especially, for downsizing and restructuring of the company, managers use the tactics of bullying on the employees. With the coercive power, the managers bully the employees by punishing them for unwanted actions. Sometimes, the authority also uses legitimate power to bully the employees. By showing them the legal right, they influence the employees to work as they say. Failing to do so, the employees face legal actions or punishment from the authority. A report by the Australian House of Representatives’ Education and Employment Committee says that in the past six months, 6.8% Australians were bullied in their workplaces (Branch, Ramsay and Barker 2013). The fundamental problem of this increase in the bullying is that, there is no proper law to protect the employees and mostly people do not go to the courts to challenge the employers. The gaps in other laws like workers health and safety, protecting employees’ interests, industrial relations, and employees’ compensation law also enhance the chance of bullying in the workplace.

Bullying is not a good practice in workplace. Although, the managers, in almost every organization, bully the workers by using their powers. It is essential in all the sectors that code of conduct should be developed for the managers to educate them about organizational behavior. Furthermore, there should be appropriate processes in the organization where the employees can report about any bullying incident in the workplace.

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