Talk:Workplace harassment

Planned work
As part of a class assignment, I have decided to revise this article. I first plan to move this article to “Workplace Harassment in the Untied States”. The reason for this suggestion is that the current article only focuses on the United States, and the contribution that I plan to make on the topic is also only limited to the United States. Moreover, given that there is a Wikipedia article named Harassment in the United Kingdom, I believe moving this article to “Workplace Harassment in the United States” makes sense. However, if you disagree with this suggestion, please let me know. Also, if you have better suggestions, I would very much appreciate hearing those.

After moving this article, I plan to extensively reorganize and edit the article. Currently, the article only has five sources and naturally lacks depth and comprehensiveness with regards to the topic. For example, the “Productivity” section simply lists effects of workplace harassment, and does not develop more on any of the effects. In addition, “Responsibility” section is vague in its purpose and content. “Responsibility” can mean several things, the responsibility of performing workplace harassment or people who are responsible of combating workplace harassment. In the article, the content under the “Responsibility” section goes back and forth. The second sentence brings up the people responsible for reporting workplace harassment and then the third sentence mentions the people who commit workplace harassment.

Thus, I plan to delete both “Productivity” and “Responsibility” sections, and instead add new sections called “Definition”, “Victims”, “Impacts” and “Preventions”. I believe the definition section is very important, especially because the topic encompasses several different violations and may potentially be confusing. Since accumulating different sources and creating one comprehensive definition is difficult, I would appreciate any kind of help for expanding this section. Other than that, I believe “Victims”, “Impacts” and “Preventions” sections are self-explanatory. Through these sections, I hope to delineate the causes and impacts of this topic in detail. I am currently doing more research to narrow down the subsections for each section, so I can have a more organized and detailed content for each section. If you have any recommendations as to a subsection that would be relevant to a section, please let me know.

Finally, I hope to add more links to the page. More links would not only direct readers to more information, but also increase traffic for this page and hopefully get more editors working. Through these contributions, I hope to increase the quality of this article and a better rating. Please let me know if there are any other potential edits I can work on. Thank you!

Lindaticket (talk) 14:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Feel free to do a “Workplace Harassment in the Untied States" article but this article must remain. it doesnt look US-specific to me, 2 of the cites relate to Australia and 1 to the UK.--Penbat (talk) 15:40, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Penbat, do you think it would be better to create a separate article on the U.S., or expand this article in place? This article is so short it seems a pity to have detailed subarticles without improving this one.  But perhaps the right way to look at it is that a good subarticle provides more resources for someone to improve this one. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 15:51, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * The UK article is mainly about law - Harassment in the United Kingdom. Unless “Workplace Harassment in the Untied States" would also mainly be about law it makes sense to me to incorporate US stuff into Workplace harassment.--Penbat (talk) 16:46, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Lindaticket's comments above make it seem that her expansion would not be primarily about law, so perhaps putting the additional material here would be the best way, at least to start with. However, I don't think there's any reason why a subarticle by country has to be only about law -- obviously that is going to differ from country to country, but so will cultural norms, and the resources available to victims.  So I think the article could eventually be split for balance reasons whether it's about law or not.  Incidentally, I meant to mention in my earlier post that I'm commenting here because I'm providing online editing support to the class Lindaticket is in this semester.  Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 23:02, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Fine. Incidentally it would be useful to have a section clearly explaining the differences between harassment and bullying. --Penbat (talk) 23:21, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I added two new sections as of now, "Definition" and "Workplace Harassment in the United States". I will work on adding more sections to the "Workplace Harassment in the United States" section more, and I will make sure to include the distinction between bullying and emotional harassment in workplace. Thank you for your support. Lindaticket (talk) 21:13, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Feedback on article edits
Hello! Your recent edits and additions to the article have added a lot to it. It is very strong in comprehensiveness, neutrality, and organization. Your use of statistics and examples from reliable sources is incredibly strong. As far as comprehensiveness, I hope you will include information on policy/legal issues in the impact or prevention section. The article could also really benefit from links to other Wikipedia articles. Finally, you often use quotes without attributing them to a source in writing. I recommend you explain the author/speaker to increase clarity. Overall, great contribution! Thanks for improving the article! Rgalts (talk) 22:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Review of recent edits
Hi Lindaticket. Your addition of the "Victims" section to the article added to the article's comprehensiveness. Your subsections on gender, sexuality, and race are a good start. You may consider adding an introductory statement about how both genders are affected by workplace harassment at the beginning of your gender section before going into details of women and men specifically. In addition, adding more information about specific cases of LGBT harassment, which you allude to in your sexuality section, would help increase comprehensiveness and better mirror the content in your gender and race sections. I would also encourage you to expand your race section to include more information on racial minorities besides Black Americans, which a majority of the section is devoted to. I agree with Rgalts that summarizing more of the quotes you included in this section or explaining the relevance of who said them might be helpful to readers. I look forward to seeing additional expansions to this article. Keep up the good work. Rloftis5672 (talk) 22:49, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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The nature of this article or at least portions of it.
I find portions of this article to be abusive such as this "With such frequency of workplace bullying to various groups of people, many theories exist in discussing the causes of workplace bullying. One side argues that the bullying targets are in fact responsible for the bullying.[18] More specifically, some physicians and psychologists attribute the cause of workplace bullying to the target employee's mental disorders, such as general anxiety disorder, instead of the working situation.[18] The opposite argument contends that the cause of workplace bullying lies in the organizational problems and poor leadership skills. Another argument states that workplace bullying is a multi-causal phenomenon, as different factors can play their respective roles in building the tension.[21] Despite this plethora of arguments, Zapf addresses that academic analysis of the cause is difficult.[18] Getting the perspective of perpetrators and potential bystanders is unrealistic, and therefore the studies are primarily focused on victims' interviews.[18]" more specifically the part where it says that victims are to be blamed. What responsibility does the abuser have? With the idea that victims bring the abuse on themselves, bullies are truly justified in their actions, we can almost so they are heroic and deserve our respect because they are doing what's apparently right, which is bullying other people who happen to be weaker or more vulnerable. This isn't even including the idea that the victims of the bullying may happen to be the more competent people in the workplace which may be part of the reason why they are targeted in the first place that and the innate flaws we find in the bully who harasses and hurts other people. Nor does it make any sense to say that it's victim's mental disorders that cause the abuse. Because disorders like general anxiety disorder often develop from being bullied, abused, and harassed (I don't have a way to verify this, just conjecture). Blaming someone's disorder is another way of bullying the person with the disorder. This entire portion of the article must be revised if not the article in its entirety perhaps by someone with a better nature than the previous author, one who cares about and understands these issues. Additional note: The citation used for these portions (Citation 18) is hardly verifiable. I've checked the link myself and it takes me to a Wikipedia article of the journal instead of the journal itself. What's the point of this? Can you not do better?

Feel free to be WP:BOLD and edit, sure some sections could be enhanced such as the one you point out, but globally this entry is clearly of encyclopedic value and thn definition and law refs adequate, although it could use an update (probably the WHO issued a recommendation on the topic since then?). Signimu (talk) 08:06, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
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