| Bully Target Self Assessment | |||||||
| BULLY TARGET SELF ASSESSMENT | |||||||
| This assessment will help you determine the level of bullying in your work place. | |||||||
| Mark the box that reflects your response for each question. | |||||||
| Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree | N/A | ||
| Does this person: | |||||||
| Stop you from joining or attending meetings? | |||||||
| Ignore or cancel requests for meetings or feedback? | |||||||
| Prohibit discussion of salaries or working conditions with other workers? | |||||||
| Separate you from co-workers by insisting you work when they are at lunch or on break? | |||||||
| Cut off support by physically isolating you from co-workers similar to you in important ways (example: other woman, people of same race, etc.)? | |||||||
| Isolate you from others who are also angry about the abuse? | |||||||
| Cut you out of communication loop? | |||||||
| Suggest isolating or excluding you to others in the workforce? | |||||||
| Make up rules and policies without informing you? | |||||||
| Limit resources required to accomplish your job (materials, personnel, tools, etc.)? | |||||||
| Assign meaningless tasks? | |||||||
| Purposely exclude you from group calendars, org publication or charts? | |||||||
| Inconsistently apply rules differently with you than co-workers? | |||||||
| Isolate you in other ways? | |||||||
| Repeatedly threaten to fire, demote or transfer you without provocation? | |||||||
| Threaten to hit or hurt you or your family? | |||||||
| Hint that he/she will reveal something you've confided if you don't do certain things? | |||||||
| Say he/she will deprive you of important responsibilities unless you comply with his/her demands? | |||||||
| Imply you'll be sorry if you don't do exactly what he/she wants, down to the finest detail? | |||||||
| Tell you about the terrible consequences to him/her or the organization if you resign? | |||||||
| Threaten the you'll lose your job unless you do physical work that endangers you or that is impossible for you because of known disabilities? | |||||||
| Shout, pound the desk, raise a fist, slam doors or talk nonstop to frighten you into submission? | |||||||
| Imply that you could "never make it on your own" but that if you stick with him he'll move you up the ladder? | |||||||
| Threaten you? | |||||||
| Call you names like "stupid," "idiot," or "crazy?" | |||||||
| Ignore your ideas and then accept them from another co-worker or someone else who has more status or power than you? | |||||||
| Does this person: | |||||||
| Order you to do things you are ashamed of (example: lie to inspectors, distort sales claims, withhold information from clients? | |||||||
| Criticize you in front of other workers, customers or the public? | |||||||
| Plagiarize or put his/her name on your work or presentations? | |||||||
| Tell you no one else would hire you? | |||||||
| Criticize your ideas, but take credit for them if accepted or praised? | |||||||
| Ask intrusive personal questions about your family, social life or sex life? | |||||||
| Prevent you from having privacy for personal or physical care (example: bathroom use)? | |||||||
| Shout or raise his/her voice to humiliate you publicly? | |||||||
| Check and recheck all your work beyond what's necessary for the job, repeatedly questioning petty details or your judgment? | |||||||
| Deliberate attempt to embarrass you? | |||||||
| Deliberately give incorrect directions about how to perform a task, then ridicule your failure? | |||||||
| Share information that you intended to keep private? | |||||||
| Sighs, frowns, rolls eyes when you are speaking or giving presentations? | |||||||
| Indicates disrespect and implies or 'telegraphs' disrespect to peers and subordinates? | |||||||
| Blame you for all errors? | |||||||
| Insult you or put you down? | |||||||
| Discount your accomplishments? | |||||||
| Question your ability? | |||||||
| Set unnecessary, arbitrary and impossible deadlines? | |||||||
| Assign you all the 'dirty' repetitive dangerous or unchallenging work, or the least rewarding work stations, instead of only your share? | |||||||
| Insist you do work that is someone else's responsibility? | |||||||
| Assign tasks he/she knows you haven't learned to do, and refuse to provide instruction? | |||||||
| Routinely insist that work be accomplished in impossible amounts of time? | |||||||
| Make other unreasonable demands? | |||||||
| Take credit for your production, work or ideas? | |||||||
| Arbitrarily change agreements without consulting or negotiating with you? | |||||||
| Demand compliance and loyalty to him/her when you make complaints about work? | |||||||
| Say his/her recommendation, or lack of it, can make or break you in this company? | |||||||
| Require you, more than others, to work in potentially dangerous surroundings without proper safety protection? | |||||||
| Become irate over issues that others find simply annoying or inconvenient? | |||||||
| Insist you get his/her approval even for small decisions? | |||||||
| Keep you late at work, talking about work or unrelated personal subjects? | |||||||
| Repeated claim he could do your job better than you can? | |||||||
| Demonstrate power over you? | |||||||
| DO YOU: | |||||||
| Feel like you're walking on eggshells around a supervisor or co-worker? | |||||||
| Worry about this person's moods feel anxious about or afraid of his/her ever-changing reactions to you or your work? | |||||||
| Feel anxious about your faults, even thou you didn't feel that way before you took this job? | |||||||
| Worry about whether this person will approve or unimportant things, such as the appearance of your desk? | |||||||
| Worry that this person will yell at you, or act in an angry, punishing or unexplained critical manner? | |||||||
| Give too much attention to this person because they mistreats you (or the job)? | |||||||
| Work so hard to please that you feel exhausted and find it hard to recover, even on days off? | |||||||
| Often feel sick, especially on work days, even though no signs of physical illness exist? | |||||||
| Feel less competent to perform job task than you used to? | |||||||
| Drink or smoke more than you would like more than you did before this job? | |||||||
| Feel so worn out from the job, or distracted by it even on days off that you don't have time for friends, family, fun or personal projects? | |||||||
| Generally feel tired or less able to do things than you did before this job? | |||||||
| Since you began work at this job or for this person are you: | |||||||
| Sleeping too much or too little, awakening in the middle of the night? | |||||||
| Having nightmares about work? | |||||||
| Gaining or losing a significant amount or weight unintentionally? | |||||||
| Are you experiencing: | |||||||
| Headaches | |||||||
| Stomach or digestive problems? | |||||||
| Back, neck or should pain? | |||||||
| Allergies? | |||||||
| Menstrual pain or PMS? | |||||||
| Hyperventilating or breathlessness? | |||||||
| Hives or a rash? | |||||||
| Are you: | |||||||
| Crying more or unexpectedly? | |||||||
| Experiencing higher blood pressure? | |||||||
| Developing ulcers? | |||||||
| Feeling exhausted and always tired? | |||||||
| Finding your friendships and/or intimate relationships suffered because of work? | |||||||
| More cynical or needlessly distrustful? | |||||||
| Rating Column Totals | |||||||