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Preventing And Responding To Workplace Bullying: Best Practices Guidelines, Worksafe New Zealand
Preventing And Responding To Workplace Bullying: Best Practices Guidelines, Worksafe New Zealand
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BULLYING IS A WORKPLACE HAZARD
Workplace bullying is a significant hazard in New Zealand. It affects people physically and mentally, resulting in increased stress levels, decreased emotional well-being, reduced coping strategies and lower work performance.
Employers who don’t deal with it risk breaching the: Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA), Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE Act), Human Rights Act 1993 (HRA), Harassment Act 1997 (HA).
BULLYING IS BAD FOR BUSINESS
Its effects can reduce productivity and disrupt workplaces through: impaired performance, increased absence, low morale, more mistakes and accidents, loss of company reputation, resignations and difficulty recruiting, poor …