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Can you recognise a bully in the ranks? Use this table to spot the serial bully in your organisation. How much damage is this employee doing to your business, your productivity, your profitability?
Manager | Bully |
Leader | Bully, coward |
Decisive | Random, impulsive |
Has a good appreciation of short, medium and long term needs, goals and strategy | Rigidly short term, often no more than 24 hours |
Accepts responsibility | Abdicates responsibility |
Shares credit | Plagiarises, takes all the credit |
Acknowledges failings | Denies failings, always blames others |
Learns from experience and applies knowledge gained from experience to improve business, communication, language and interpersonal skills | Has a learning blindness, cannot apply knowledge gained from experience except how to be more devious, manipulative, and how to better evade accountability |
Consistent | Inconsistent, random, impulsive |
Fair, treats all equally | Inconsistent, always critical, singles people out, shows favouritism |
Respectful and considerate | Disrespectful and inconsiderate |
Seeks and retains people more knowledgeable and experienced than self | Favours weaker employees, recruits henchmen and toadying types |
Values others | Unable to value, constantly devalues others |
Includes everyone | Includes and excludes people selectively |
Leads by example | Dominates, sets a poor example |
Truthful | Economical, uses distortion and fabrication |
Confident | Insecure, arrogant |
Behaviourally mature | Behaviourally immature |
Emotionally mature, high EQ (emotional intelligence) | Emotionally immature, very low EQ (emotional intelligence) |
Good interpersonal skills | Poor interpersonal skills |
Good etiquette | Poor etiquette |
Balanced objectivity | Exclusive self-interest |
Cares about staff, the business, etc | Cares only about self |
Respects clients | Is contemptuous of clients |
Gets on well with people at all levels and from all backgrounds | Identifies only with clones of himself or herself |
Assertive | Aggressive |
Delegates | Dumps |
Builds team spirit | Divisive, uses manipulation and threat |
Uses influencing skills | Alienates, divides, creates fear and uncertainty |
Motivates | Demotivates |
Listens, guides, instructs | Tells |
Has high expectations (that staff will do well) | Has low expectations of everybody |
Shares fairly | Controls and subjugates |
Shares information freely | Withholds information, releases selectively, uses information as a weapon |
Always strives for clarity | Revels in confusion, divide and rule etc |
Allows and trusts people to get on with the job | Constantly interfering, dictating and controlling |
Only addresses genuine performance issues and then focuses on performance and behaviour | Makes false claims about alleged underperformance and focuses on the person, not behaviour or performance |
Focused on the future | Obsessed with the past |
Respected | Loathed |
Sets a good example | Sets a bad example |
Has good moral code and moral integrity | Amoral behaviour, no integrity |
Has honesty and integrity | Exhibits hypocrisy and duplicity |
Rarely uses the disciplinary procedures | Frequently imposes verbal warnings and written warning without justification |
More information
The cost of a bullying manager.
Facts, figures, surveys and the cost of bullying to industry, taxpayers and society.
Profile of the serial bully.
How the bully encourages work colleagues to gang up on another employee.
Why targets of bullying find it impossible to stand up for themselves.
Where now at Bully OnLine?
How can I recognise that I'm being bullied?
What is bullying and why me? |
Definitions of bullying
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) about bullying
Overcoming myths, misperceptions and stereotypes
The answer to Why don't you stand up for yourself?
Bullying and vulnerability
Why have my colleagues deserted me?
What's the difference between bullying and mobbing?
What is harassment and discrimination?
Why grievance procedures are inappropriate for dealing with bullying
The difference between bullying and management
Facts, figures, surveys, costs of bullying |
Cost of bullying to UK plc
UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line statistics
Profile of the serial bully - who does this describe in your life?
Antisocial Personality Disorder |
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Paranoid Personality Disorder |
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bullies and attention-seeking behaviour
Munchausen Syndrome and MSBP
Information for nurses |
Information for voluntary sector employees
Information for teachers being bullied
Bullying of lecturers in further education
Bullying of lecturers in higher education
Bullying in the social services sector
Bullying in the public sector - the political dimension and
why trade unions fail to support their members
Bullying in the military |
Bullying of students
Scheduled training and conferences on bullying |
Other events about bullying
Articles on bullying available online
Bullying on TV, radio and in print media
Requests to take part in surveys etc |
Bullying issues needing research
Tim Field's quotes on bullying |
Vision for bullying
Feedback about Bully OnLine |
Survivor testimonies
The Secret Tragedy of Working: Work Abuse - PTSD Chauncey Hare
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