After reading about Tim Field in my previous source, I went to the website he created that was mentioned in the article. This website opened my eyes to bullying in the workplace. In order to minimize stress, the site suggested identifying possible problems by discussing who could be harmed and how, evaluating the risk, recording any problems, and reviewing the status of the situation regularly. This will help promote a safer, stress-free workplace. Another aspect to the website helped me to understand the difference between harassment and discrimination. While harassment and discrimination is focused on gender, race or disability, bullying is often on ability to perform certain tasks, or the lack of competence. While the target of bullying may be capable of everything, the bully is constantly trying to impose their own social, interpersonal, and professional inadequacy onto their target. Furthermore, "The purpose of projection is to avoid facing up to that inadequacy and doing something about it, and - mainly - to distract and divert attention away from the bully's inadequacies, shortcomings and failings." The main point is the idea that bullying is the source of all harassment, discrimination, abuse, conflict, and violence. However, there must be separate policies because their are different tactics and aspects that must be addressed.
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