Managing a Workplace Bully: Confronting Bullying Behavior in a Team Member

Abstract

In this chapter we’ll be considering your options as a manager who thinks that they might have a workplace bully in their team. The chapter will examine your role as the person whose responsibility it is to: Recognize that you have a team member who is using bullying behavior. Establish whether or not they are consistently using bullying behavior and are in fact a workplace bully – or whether they use aggression on an occasional or infrequent basis. Confront a bullying team member about their ongoing use of coercive behavior. Manage the situation to a satisfactory conclusion.