The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has launched a new guide intended to help stamp out bullying in the workplace.
Entitled Tackling bullying at work, the guide sets out a number of ways to tackle the issues surrounding workplace bullying and offers advice to employers on how best to implement an effective anti-bullying policy.
One method suggested is to train line managers and bosses to recognise that an authoritative style may be best replaced by a more integrating managing method that engages an employee's confidence and trust.
"This will help reduce conflict within the workplace and deliver benefits to the business by improving performance, improving the working environment, helping to retain staff and reducing absence rates, especially those caused by stress-related illness," said Imogen Haslam, a CIPD professional adviser.
Ms Haslam also indicated the importance of a dignity at work policy defining the contours of behaviour expected from employees.
More than 80 per cent of employers have an anti-bullying policy but onrec.com estimates that managing workplace-related conflict costs the average employer almost 450 days of management time each year.
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