Table 2.

Respondents reporting each type and category of bullying

	No (%) (n=1100)
Threat to professional status	185 (17)*
Persistent attempts to belittle and undermine your work	124 (11)
Persistent and unjustified criticism and monitoring of your work	109 (10)
Persistent attempts to humiliate you in front of colleagues	90 (8)
Intimidatory use of discipline or competence procedures	57 (5)
Threat to personal standing	217 (20)*
Undermining your personal integrity	124 (11)
Destructive innuendo and sarcasm	123 (11)
Verbal and non-verbal threats	63 (6)
Making inappropiate jokes about you	49 (5)
Persistent teasing	32 (3)
Physical violence	18 (2)
Violence to property	16 (2)
Isolation	255 (23)*
Witholding necessary information from you	178 (16)
Freezing out, ignoring, or excluding	143 (13)
Unreasonable refusal of applications for leave, training, or promotion	78 (7)
Overwork	166 (15)*
Undue pressure to produce work	139 (13)
Setting of impossible deadlines	89 (8)
Destabilisation	294 (27)*
Shifting of goal posts without telling you	204 (19)
Constant undervaluing of your efforts	126 (12)
Persistent attempts to demoralise you	114 (11)
Removal of areas of responsibility without consultation	84 (8)

^*Some respondents reported more than one type of bullying in each category.