Assessment Task 1 Assessment Weighting 50 marks You should only attempt one of the options that follow. Option 1: Using the checklist contained in Exercise 7 of Chapter 3 of the prescribed text...

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Table of Contents
Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3
Organizational Experience ------------------------------------------------------------ 4
Other Industries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6
Cyberbullying ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7
What can we learn from international experiences? ----------------------------- 9
References -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11
Introduction
Workplace is a location where professionals come together to complete a task or to implement ideas in order to achieve and objective. A team is comprised of people who have different levels of experiences, are of different age groups, different educational background and also different gender. A team is comprised of a good combination of such a mixture to have the project implemented. (Williamson, M., 2015,)
There is a huge difference between teasing and bullying but a thin line separating them. Teasing in an organization is common among the team members and colleagues. It helps to maintain a healthy relationship among the employees. In an organization, bullying by the ones who have more experiences or are above in position is heard of. Such situations arise when teasing crosses a line and enters into the zone of bullying. Bullying has negative effects on a person. It may lead a person to become unhappy and it creates a negative environment at the workplace. The person’s confidence is broken and it affects the quality of work the person does.
Bullying has more negative effects which may lead a person to commit suicide. This affects not only the person but also the family and the near and dear ones to the person. The people responsible for that person to take such an action are then held accountable. This creates an issue for the entire organization.
Nowadays stringent laws have been created to avoid bullying and help the ones who have been bullied. Legal action can be taken against people who bully either their juniors, their team mates, person of opposite or same gender either by means of verbal or written communication
Organizational Experience
I have been working with a reputed MNC for the past 3 years and have been around the industries for some time now. In my organization there are strict rules related to the workplace bullying. My workplace is Accenture and it has ZERO TOLERANCE rules that are applied to every employee.
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A case had happened in my city workplace which is in Australia where an employee had complained about bullying from a senior team mate. The employee was with Accenture for quite some time and the senior was an employee at Accenture comparatively new. The complaint was raised with the team lead and the team lead was smart enough to understand the situation. The team lead had both the parties separated from the project team. They were part of the project but now in different teams. Bullying is an act that can happen across teams and the act of bullying doesn’t comply that the bullying has to be verbal. Bullying happens across emails and also across locations. In my project this kind of bullying was happening in terms of action across the work. The employee was been harassed by the way of work and the work wasn’t getting the appreciation that it should have. Instead the senior started blaming the employee and also started giving more work across the team since the project was same.
This time the employee who was being harassed didn’t complain to the team lead but went directly to the HR and the lead above the assigned HR both at the same time to ensure that her voice is being heard and she isn’t being harassed anymore.
The HR’s were quick to react and the employee’s say was understood. A separate conference room was booked where the lead HR’s were present, the team lead of the project was present and the employee was present to say her point. Since this was a serious allegation, the senior employee wasn’t involved in the meeting as it would have defeated the purpose if the employee was intimidated. The meeting went smoothly and the employee had all the proofs and the team lead accepted that the senior was wrong. But the lead wasn’t charged...