What is a workplace “bully?
” The dictionary.com definition of “bully” is this: “a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.” According to the “Anti-Bullying Workplace Bill” bullying is defined as repeated “health-harming mistreatment” of one or more employees, through verbal abuse, threats, “humiliating or offensive behavior or actions,” or sabotage that prevents work from getting done. (See Bullybusters.org “National Coordinators of U.S. State Legislative Initiatives to Stop Workplace Bullying” for more information about this bill.) Another definition comes from Quebec, which outlaws “vexatious behavior” that affects an employee’s “dignity or psychological or physical integrity.” The National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety recognizes workplace bullying, defined as “the repeated intimidation, slandering, social isolation or humiliation by one or more persons against another,” as a form of workplace violence. The “Anti-Bullying Workp
