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Role of Teachers: Bullying can also be reduced with the help of 
teachers. One recent study (O’Moore, 2000) found that teachers 
should be taught the important fact that bullying involves low 
self-esteem and that attempts should be made by teachers to 
enhance children’s feelings of self-worth and this can help in 
reducing bullying. 
Role of Parent’s and Parent’s Association: In Norway 
(Roland, 2000) and Netherlands (Limper, 2000) parents help 
has been taken through Parent’s Association as well as the help 
of outside experts such as Psychologists, etc., to reduce 
bullying. In these programs, efforts have been made to change 
the entire school environment so that it is clear to students, 
teachers and parents alike that bullying is not a normal part of 
growing up and is not to be tolerated. 
 
15.2 WORKPLACE AGGRESSION : 
 
Work place aggression is also called as work place violence. 
It refers to aggression occurring in work setting. According to 
Neuman and Baron (1998) workplace aggression can be defined as 
any form of behavior through which individuals seek to harm others 
in their workplace. 
 
Covert Aggression at Work Place : Large number of research 
studies has suggested that workplace violence is largely covert 
rather than overt in nature. Covert aggression is very much similar 
to indirect aggression. Covert aggression is relatively subtle in 
nature and allows aggressors to harm other persons while 
simultaneously preventing such persons from identifying them as 
the source of harm. Such violence has been increasing at a higher 
frequency. With respect to violence at work place two points are 
worth noting. 
• A large majority of violence occurring in work setting takes place 
in connection with robberies and related crimes and is generally 
performed by outsiders, i.e., people who do not work there but 
who enter a work-place to commit robbery or other crimes. 
• Threats of physical harm or actual harm in work settings are 
actually quite rare. 

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Aggression at workplace occurs in very covert ways. There 
are two reasons why aggression at workplace occurs in covert 
(subtle) manner. 
At workplace, aggression occurs in very many subtle ways 
because in work settings there are many potential witnesses to 
acts of aggression. 
 
Since would - be aggressors in workplace usually expect to 
interact with their intended victims in the future, they prefer 
covert forms of aggression because with respect to covert forms 
of aggression there is reduced likelihood of retaliation.