Examples of Bullying from the Church of England

Examples of bullying behaviour

This list of behaviours is not exhaustive but gives a clear indication of the sorts of actions that constitute bullying or harassment

• removing areas of responsibility without discussion or notice
  
• isolating someone or deliberately ignoring or excluding them from activities
  
• consistently attacking someone’s professional or personal standing
  
• setting out to make someone appear incompetent
  
• persistently picking on someone in front of others
  
• deliberate sabotage of work or actions
  
• deliberately withholding information or providing incorrect information.
  
• overloading with work/reducing deadlines without paying attention to any protest
  
• displays of offensive material
  
• use of e-mails to reprimand, insult or otherwise inform someone of their apparent failing, either to the individual or to third parties
  
• repeatedly shouting or swearing in public or in private
  
• spreading malicious rumours to third parties
  
• public humiliation by constant innuendo, belittling and ‘putting down’
  
• personal insults and name-calling
  
• aggressive gestures, verbal threats and intimidation

• persistent threats about security
  
• making false accusations
  
• aggressive bodily posture or physical contact
  
• talking/shouting directly into someone’s face
  
• direct physical intimidation, violence or assault 
  
  
  Do the tactics in bold remind you of anyone who has been in leadership in the Lutheran Church in Great Britain?