Exploring Solutions to Workplace Bullying

Workplace bullying is a severe and pervasive problem. Workplace bullying has devastating effects on the targets of the bullying and is severely detrimental to the organizations within which the bullying occurs. Despite the severe and pervasive nature of workplace bullying there is no clear and adequate remedial path for targets to follow. However, there are a number of potential areas that should be explored and developed to address this phenomena. In this paper, I will explore the potential legal, employer based and collective solutions to workplace bullying. Specifically, the potential for common law solutions, statutory solutions, alternative dispute resolution, employer based anti-bullying programs, concerted activity and the grievance process will be explored. While none of these avenues present a viable alternative today, each of them with some development and all of them collectively provide hope for targets of workplace bullying.