Aggressive behaviour in the

RAYNER & HOEL, in a useful review, addressed the difficulties in defining adult bullying. They grouped bullying behaviours into the following categories: threat to professional status (for example by belittling opinion, public professional humiliation, accusing the victim of lack of effort); threat to personal standing (for example by name calling, insults, intimidation, devaluing with reference to age); isolation (for example by preventing access to opportunities, physical or social isolation, withholding of information); overwork (for example undue pressure, impossible deadlines, unnecessary disruptions); destabilization (for example failure to give credit when due, meaningless tasks, removal of responsibility, repeated reminders of blunders, setting up to fail).