“…Prior to that, Saunders et al explain, the focus on bullying behaviors centered largely on discriminatory behaviors in the workplace against protected classes based on sex, sexual orientation, race, national origin, and religion. Accordingly, a myriad of diverse definitions of workplace bullying began to develop, including such characteristics as persistent downgrading, criticism, vicious humiliation, slander, and unseen acts including isolation and assignment of meaningless tasks (Nazarko, 2001;Karatuna, 2015). It was not until 1994, Saunders et al cites the Swedish Board of Occupational Safety and Health, that the first anti-bullying legislation was passed which provided a working definition for workplace bullying as "recurrent reprehensible or distinctly negative actions which are directed against individual employees in an offensive manner and can result in those employees being placed outside the workplace community" (p. 342).…”