An overview of work place harassment

Workplace harassment is the ridicule or soothing behavior directed at an individual worker or a group of workers. Recently, matters of workplace harassment have gained interest among practitioners and researchers as it is becoming one of the most sensitive areas of effective workplace management. In Asian countries, it involved lots of attention from researchers and governments since the 1980s, because a momentous source of work stress is associated with destructive behaviors at workplace. Third world countries are far behind Asian countries in that there are narrow efforts to examine the questions on workplace harassment. It is almost unseen and the administrative leaders (managers) are almost against or unconscious about it in the third world countries. Under occupational health and safety laws around the world, workplace harassment and workplace bullying are identified as being core psychosocial hazards.