retaliation

Retaliation in the workplace is when an employee with power exerts their power over another employee with less power with the intent of negatively impacting that employee’s career or professional advancement in the organization, or even how that person is perceived by leadership. In other words, there is usually a power differential when workplace retaliation happens.

This is usually because employees either did something the other person(s) did not approve or did not do something they wanted.