Definitions of Bullying:
1. Preferred Definition:
Bullying is an act/acts, physical, verbal or written, which could mentally or physically hurt or isolate a person. The pattern of bullying involves repeated behaviour to intimidate, offend, degrade or humiliate a person or group of people.
It has also been described as using any means possible to assert power, control and subjugation on others, including aggression.
Bullying usually focuses on distorted or fabricated allegation/allegations. Using those allegations to commence criticism, nit-picking, fault finding and single out the person to be treated differently. They shout at them, humiliate them, monitor them excessively and are actively involved in verbal and written warnings imposed upon them.
2. NSW Schools website (www.schools.nsw.edu.au)
Bullying is repeated verbal, physical, social or psychological behaviour that is harmful and involves the misuse of power by an individual or group towards one or more persons. Cyberbullying refers to bullying through information and communication technologies.
Bullying can involve humiliation, domination, intimidation, victimisation and all forms of harassment ...... Bullying of any form or for any reason can have long-term effects on those involved including bystanders.
Bullying can happen anywhere: at school, travelling to and from school, in sporting teams, between neighbours or in the workplace.
3. Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
Bullying is the use of force or coercion to abuse or intimidate others. The behavior can be habitual and involve an imbalance of social or physical power. It can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target".
Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, while some U.S. states have laws against it. Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation.
Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism.
Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods.
Definition of Mobbing:
Mobbing is a "ganging up" by several bullies to force someone out of the workplace or organisation through rumor, innuendo, intimidation, discrediting, and particularly, humiliation. Mobbing is a serious form of nonsexual, nonracial harassment. It has been legally described as status-blind harassment.