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Work bullying ‘leads to ill-health’

Workplace bullying has a significant impact on stress and psychological health of employees, research has found.
A study by the University of Sheffield found that bullying from organisational insiders, such as colleagues, subordinates and superiors, had the most salient health effect for employees, significantly influencing levels of stress reported seven months later.
About 39% of employees in the study said they had been frequently (either weekly or daily) bullied by their colleagues, subordinates or superiors in the past six months.
The study – funded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) – also found that enhancing personal optimism and self-esteem in work-based training programmes could help limit the negative impact of bullying on employees. Christine Sprigg, Lecturer in Occupational Psychology at the University’s Institute of Work Psychology, who led the study, said: “The evidence of the relationship between employee ill-health and workplace bullying is clearly shown by our data. “But more importantly, we find that there might be workplace interventions, for example working to boost employee self-esteem, that can help to lessen the impact of other people’s bad behaviour at work. We look forward to investigating this further.” The study will be presented for the first time at the Institute of Work Psychology’s Conference in Sheffield on 30 June 2010.
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