Confronting the Office Bully

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, everyone's thinking about relationships--dating relationships, friendships, family relationships and, perhaps the most strained of all, work relationships. Even though most of the time, nobody confronts problems in the office, a 2006 study by VitalSmarts, a communications company in Provo, Utah, found that 93 percent of 937 people surveyed claimed to work with “nasty, unreliable or eccentric employees"--and only one in four confront the person causing the problem.

If you're searching for a way to confront a bully in the office, check out this New York Times article. It addresses tension in the workplace and what you can do to challenge volatile employees without becoming part of the problem.