Which of the following could be characteristics of bullying behavior?

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include: An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. There are three types of bullying: Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things, social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships, and physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Verbal bullying includes: Teasing, Name-calling, Inappropriate sexual comments, Taunting, Threatening to cause harm. Social bullying includes: Leaving someone out on purpose, Telling other children not to be friends with someone, Spreading rumors about someone, Embarrassing someone in public. Physical bullying includes: Hitting/kicking/pinching, Spitting, Tripping/pushing, Taking or breaking someone’s things, Making mean or rude hand gestures.

Bullying might be a regular pattern of behaviour or a one-off incident. It can happen face-to-face, on social media, in emails or calls, and can happen at work or in other work-related situations. Examples of bullying at work could include constantly criticising someone's work, spreading malicious rumours about someone, constantly putting someone down in meetings, deliberately giving someone a heavier workload than everyone else, excluding someone from team social events, and putting humiliating, offensive or threatening comments or photos on social media. Bullying can also happen from staff towards someone more senior, for example a manager, and can include showing continued disrespect, refusing to complete tasks, spreading rumours, constantly undermining someone's authority, and doing things to make someone seem unskilled or unable to do their job properly. It can be difficult for someone in a senior role to realise they're experiencing bullying behaviour from their staff. Bullying behaviour can be offensive, intimidating, malicious or insulting, and can be an abuse or misuse of power that undermines, humiliates, or causes physical or emotional harm to someone.