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An employee who appeared to take every decision unfavourable to him as a "personal affront" has failed to win stop-bullying orders, with the Fair Work Commission finding none of his seven allegations met the required bar.

Commissioner Emma Thornton accepted the incidents were distressing for the employee and had an adverse impact on him, but she rejected that "either individually or collectively", they rose to the level of repeated unreasonable behaviour.

The university lecturer raised seven incidents that he said constituted unreasonable conduct by two of his managers, namely the executive dean and the dean of programs in his department at the then University of South Australia (now Adelaide University).

Both managers denied bullying the employee, and told the Commission the conduct he complained of was reasonable management action taken in a reasonable manner...