20/08/2024
Should a female executive report regular bullying?
Bullying can have undesirable consequences for female executive victims and their families, making it difficult for them to feel safe and comfortable in their environment. Human resources need to be careful and establish a controlled environment and open channel of communication to create awareness about the bullying at work place and strict measures to handle them.
1) Bullies target females based on factors such as their appearance, race, religion, or other characteristics.
2) Bullies are also made by staff who might feel jealous and discontent with their own situation and will seek to collect other colleagues' dissidents to join in the bullying strategies
3) Workplace bullying can involve strange words, taking credit for others' work, or trying to get the victim in trouble with their boss.
4) Female executives are in worse positions than female employees, they are concerned that if they report the different actions to their superiors or HR they will be considered as weak and they know it might impact their future promotions. They stay in a dilemma and are ashamed or afraid to speak up, this creates unnecessary pressure and anxiety for them that build up over time
5) The question is should they report the bullying to their superiors and HR representative, who can help address the issue and provide support?
6) What if the bullying is targeted by the superiors of the victims women are always faced with this situation there are regular remarks made by female superiors comparing them with their wives who are sitting idle and spending money is it a sign of jealousy or admiration .? Experience tell us it is pure jealousy which with time manifest itself in a lot of passing comments.
7) To address the problem of bullying, I leave the floor for female seniors to participate and advise how they should be handling the bullying
a. Take steps such as avoiding the bully, is it possible, if it is a boss, subordinate, or even peer
b. Stay confident, and remembering that the issue lies with the bully, not the victim. But is it possible to mentally and emotionally continue to absorb hateful remarks
c. Who takes the responsibility for addressing the bullying, and how many policies and training have been filtered within the organization that bullying is forbidden?
This requires a collective effort to create safe and respectful environments in workplaces, and communities.
I am addressing this to all female professional women and I would like to document actual cases faced by them if some sort of bullying occurred throughout their career life and whether they think they need or should have reported this bullying to their superiors or HR.
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