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HRM Assignment

This document defines and discusses workplace bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination. It provides examples of bullying behavior and explains that bullying involves repeated unreasonable behavior that risks health and safety, while sexual harassment can be a single event. Discrimination involves adverse actions due to protected attributes. Reasonable management actions are not considered bullying even if the worker feels offended. The document outlines protections from bullying under the Fair Work Act and sources of help for employees experiencing issues.

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HRM Assignment

This document defines and discusses workplace bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination. It provides examples of bullying behavior and explains that bullying involves repeated unreasonable behavior that risks health and safety, while sexual harassment can be a single event. Discrimination involves adverse actions due to protected attributes. Reasonable management actions are not considered bullying even if the worker feels offended. The document outlines protections from bullying under the Fair Work Act and sources of help for employees experiencing issues.

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Assignment

On
Workplace Bullying

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
Kazi Nuzhat Tasnim Md. Rakibul Hasan
Lecturer Sorker
School of Business ID No: 201018045
Primeasia University Department: BBA
School of Business
Primeasia University

Date of Submission: 12-10-2023

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What is bullying?

Bullying happens at work when:

• a person or group of people repeatedly behave unreasonably towards


another worker or group of workers
• the behavior creates a risk to health and safety.

Examples of bullying include:

• behaving aggressively towards others


• teasing or playing practical jokes
• pressuring someone to behave inappropriately
• excluding someone from work-related events
• unreasonable work demands.

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Sexual harassment in the workplace

Under the Fair Work Act, sexual harassment at work happens when a worker or
group of workers:

• makes an unwelcome sexual advance


• makes an unwelcome request for sexual favours
• engages in other unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature in relation to
another worker.

To be sexual harassment, it has to be reasonable to expect that there is a possibility


that the worker being sexually harassed would be offended, humiliated or
intimidated.

Some forms of sexual harassment can also be considered bullying if the behaviour
is repeated or continuous. But unlike bullying, sexual harassment does not need to
be continuous or repeated behaviour, it can be a one-off event. There is also no
need to establish a risk to health and safety.

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Discrimination in the workplace

Bullying is different from discrimination. The Fair Work Act prohibits an employer
from taking adverse action against an employee for discriminatory reasons,
including their sex, race, religion or gender. Adverse action can include firing or
demoting someone.

Bullying doesn't have to be related to a person’s or group's characteristics. Adverse


action doesn’t have to have happened for bullying to occur.

Reasonable management action


Reasonable management action that's carried out in a reasonable way is not
bullying.

An employer or manager can:

• make decisions about poor performance


• take disciplinary action
• direct and control the way work is carried out.

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Management action that isn't carried out in a reasonable way may be considered
bullying

Protection from bullying in the workplace


The laws to stop bullying under the Fair Work Act only apply to certain workers . A
worker includes:

• an employee
• a contractor or subcontractor
• an outworker
• an apprentice or a trainee
• an intern
• a student gaining work experience
• some volunteers.

Where to get workplace help

For employees
If you think bullying, sexual harassment or discrimination has happened at your
workplace, you can talk to:

• a supervisor or manager
• a health and safety representative
• the human resources department
• a union
• a lawyer.

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