A kind of bullying. A superior/supervisor takes advantage of his/her position to humiliate or intimidate a subordinate/subordinate.
Examples:
- Unjustified unequal treatment of some employees.
- Regular and recurring marginal criticism for failure to perform job tasks and duties.
- Disproportionate sanction.
- Imposition of objectively impossible deadlines within working hours.
- Assigning work tasks that are objectively unrealistic to complete.
- Imposing humiliating tasks.
- Unreasonable disapproval of leave.
- Urging an employee to work on his/her own time.
- Ignoring the employee’s comments.
- Failure to recognise merit.
- Failure to honour agreements.
- Social isolation.
- Shouting.
Standard use of authority or power by a supervisor/supervisee should not be confused with bossing.