Analysis of the hospital (n=14) and regulatory agency (n=8) documents indicated there was no common label for bullying-type behaviors within or across the documents. In these documents, discourses of patient safety were mentioned more often than occupational safety discourses. Discussions of the needs of targets of bullying were minimal. Analysis of managerial discourse revealed that bullying was characterized as an interpersonal issue attributable to both the target and the perpetrator, an intrapersonal issue related to characteristics of the perpetrator, or an ambiguous situation that was difficult to classify. Two discourses of managing bullying were identified: bullying that was the responsibility of the staff to resolve and bullying that was the manager's responsibility to resolve. Actions that were available to managers in the discourse included doing nothing, actions other than progressive guidance, and progressive guidance. When managerial discourses were compared with hospital organizational discourses, differences were found in the words used to label bullying-type behaviors, the assignment of responsibilities for managers and staff, and the actions available to managers within the discourse.