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20/11/2008
Organisations have to 'raise awareness of bullying' |
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The Andrea Adams Trust suggests that managers need to be trained and experts employed to tackle the problem of workplace bullying.
Lyn Witheridge, chief executive of the trust, says businesses are revising policies and procedures all the time to give employees "a route to air grievances".
However, she adds that policies and procedures are just "written words" and organisations have to raise awareness in their workplace of what bullying really is.
One way to achieve this is to train management and hire harassment advisers.
"We all want to go to work, but we do not want to go to be beaten up, physically or psychologically," she added.
When questioned regarding how their business deals with bullying in the workplace, 44 per cent of respondents to the National Workplace Bullying Survey said they did not know.
A quarter said that their organisation has specific guidelines and procedures in place but the remaining majority handle the situation via the standard grievance procedures.
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