Adult bullying

Adult bullying can take many forms:

1. Verbal, written or physical threat and intimidation
2. Persistent, negative and unjustified comments
3. Offensive or abusive personal remarks
4. Abuse and humiliation in the presence of other colleagues or in private
5. Removing areas of responsibility without justification and undervaluing work done
6. Setting the individual unachievable targets and/or changing instructions without consultation in order to cause the individual to fail
7. Reducing a colleagues effectiveness by withholding important information
8. Monitoring work unnecessarily and intrusively
9. Continually refusing reasonable requests without any justification
10. Unfair allocation of work