Employee to employee inappropriate workplace behaviours occur in various forms. They are any behaviour that goes against the employer’s documented corporate policies, applicable statutory and regulatory provisions, codes of conduct etc., with potential for negative consequences such as: poor morale, employee stress, sub-optimal productivity, high employee turnover, toxic work environment, reputational damage/impairment of brand equity, direct and indirect financial losses, etc.2 Some examples of employees’ inappropriate workplace behaviour include bullying, sexual harassment (SH), victimisation, favouritism and grant of unfair advantage, verbal abuse, physical violence, connivance (for exampletocommitfraud), etc.
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