International Islamic university Islamabad

Organizational behavior
Topic: work place bullies
Class: BBA 36 A
Submitted to: Mam Amber Jaleel
Date: December 5, 2018
Submitted by: Zainab fahim 4898
Aqsa abid
Shabina Ashraf 4893
Mahnoor irshad
 Summary
Bullying can also take place in workplaces. For example, Madhu was looked down upon by her
colleagues just because of her good English and she shared interesting ideas. She had to resign
from her job just because the employees were jealous of her. Thou usually people have bullies
when they are in school but bullying also takes place in a workplace. As 37% employees get
bullied by their superior. Not only the weak ones are the victim but any one can be a victim of
it. Due to bullying the employees may do their regular work or tasks but they are less motivated
to do extra role, helping others and speaking good of the organization but some are not affect
by it. If our boss or our superior are bullies us we shouldn’t expect help from fellow colleges
because they probably want their job more than helping you and they usually blame the victim
that maybe he she deserved it, or they are annoying. To resolve their own conflict, they blame
the victims.

1. Workplace bullying demonstrates a lack of which one of the three types of

organizational justice?
Ans.
Workplace bullying demonstrates a lack of Interactional Justice among the three types
of organizational justice. Bullying employees means, treating them without dignity, concern
and respect.
2. What aspects of motivation might workplace bullying reduce? For example, are there
likely to be effects on an employee’s self-efficacy? If so, what might those effects be?
Ans.
If we consider Hierarch of needs theory, a early theory of Motivation there exists a
hierarchy of five needs: Physiological, Safety, Social, Esteem, Self-actualization. Workplace
bullying has moderate impact on Safety, Social and high impact on Esteem, Self-actualization
of aspects of motivation. By bullying an employee there will a long last effect on self-
efficacy. He or She can not drive to become what they are capable of becoming. “The victims
may feel less motivated to go to work every day, they continue performing there required job
duties with fear, some are less motivated to perform extra-role or citizenship behaviors.
Helping others, speaking positively about organization, and going beyond the call of the duty
are reduced as a result of bullying”.
Q3. If you were a victim of workplace bullying, what steps would you take to reduce its
occurrence? What strategies would be most effective? Least effective? What would you
do if one of you colleagues were a victim?
Ans.
If I were the victims of workplace bullying I will try to talk with appropriate committee
how can control bully. Most effective strategy would be increase higher-order needs that are
satisfied internally, such as social, esteem, and self-actualization needs. By doing this it will
drive me to became what I can become. Least effective would be leaving the job.
This may not be the good strategy to do because I may feel dissatisfaction in other job due to
this incident. If one of colleagues were a victim I will not blame, annoy him/her.
Q4. What factors do you believe contribute to workplace bullying? Are bullies a product of
situation, or they have flawed personalities? What situation or what personality factors
might contribute to presence of bullies?

 Insecurity, lack of confidence and low self-esteem are few factors that could contribute
to workplace bully.
 To boost self-satisfaction.
 A person who seems to be different or intelligent is made a target i.e. Madhu was good
in English, often voiced interesting ideas she was targeted by those who were jealous of
her.
 People may be bullied because they are seen as threat.