What Does Presenteeism, Incivility, Non-Carefronting, and Bullying, Behaviors Have in Common?

If employed any length of time you likely experienced most or all of the titled concepts. They are noteworthy because they negatively affect the health of indi vidual s and more specifically adversely affects women s health in general. The aforem ntioned concepts are not conducive to creating work environments that support an d encourage professionalism, positive employee interactions, or mutual respect b etween employees but instead the concepts strongly correlate with risk factors s upporting illness and disease resulting from a climate of negativity or prevalen t stressful experiences. Stress promoting factors may present when employees feel the work place will not or cannot function without them and to be fair some might need the income, have a project time constraint, feel disloyal if they miss a day or he/she may simpl y enjoy work too much to stay away. Whatever the reason, the employee will come to work ill and subsequently may demonstrate a significant decrease in work pro duction a good description of presenteeism (Johnston, 2011). To say the least, othe r employees show up with poor attitudes and discourteous behaviors, i.e., incivi lity, that wreaks tension in the work place. These behaviors become living and breathing barriers to displays of mutual respect, teamwork, and peer camaraderie . Conveyed lack of carefronting exists when staffs fail to care enough about th emselves, coworkers, and others for diplomatically confronting adverse and disre spectful behaviors via professional communications (Kupperschmidt, 2006). Where presenteeism, incivility, and non-carefronting leave off bullying steps in and paves its way into health care settings. Reflecting on days spent in eleme ntary and secondary classrooms one might think bullying took a back seat in peop le s lives beyond high school. Unfortunately, young bullies often grow up to be old bullies and so they are forever part of our society. Considering the consequen ces of wars throughout history not many would joyfully come to work anticipating grenades every step of the way. The described scenarios all manifest in stress ful workplace experiences and environments. Exposure to these stressors places all personnel at a higher risk for disease and illness, specifically; these stre ssors more aggressively affect women than men (Johnston, 2010). Dr Michelle Alb ert (as cited by Johnson, 2010) conducted a ten-year study of 17, 415 women at B righam and Women s Hospital in Boston; the women studied predominantly worked in hea lthcare settings. The study found that women reporting higher levels of job str ess also experienced an increased number of health problems at the end of ten ye ars. The study also found that the women reporting the highest stress levels ha d a 40% greater risk of heart disease and including diagnoses requiring surgical interventions (Johnston, 2010). If you are still pondering what presenteeism, incivility, non-carefronting, and bullying behaviors have in common, they are co mmon to the workplace, cause harmful and unnecessary stress, and predispose indi viduals to illness and life threatening diseases. Also important to note is that stress is a modifiable risk factor.