ABSTRACT
Sara had been successful her entire career. For Sara, the working environment became so bad it began to impact her health and she began to lose sleep and weight and began to feel tired and listless. The reality in the American workplace is that the vast majority of workers will be exposed to workplace bullying in one way or another – as targets, witnesses or even as bullies. Targets of workplace bullying suffer psychological distress and illnesses, and even physical illnesses, including high blood pressure and heart disease from the bullying at work. No human being should have to endure workplace bullying in order to earn a living. We ignore how bullying in the workplace violates human rights and destroys the lives of targets and witnesses. The realities are that workplace bullying is not a minor problem. The target of workplace bullying is stripped of their human right to dignity, a basic foundation of all human rights.
