Psychological Harassment in Organizations - The Mobbing

Andreea Roman (), Cristina Adriana Dragomir (), Sînziana Boghean () and Georgiana Corcaci ()
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Andreea Roman: Student at ”Petre Andrei” University from Iași, FPSE
Cristina Adriana Dragomir: Student at ”Petre Andrei” University from Iași, FPSE
Sînziana Boghean: Student at “Petre Andrei” University from Iași, FPSE
Georgiana Corcaci: Associate Professor Ph.D., Petre Andrei” University from Iași

Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / Year-Book „Petre Andrei” University from Iasi, Fascicula: Asistenta Sociala, Sociologie, Psihologie / Fascicle: Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, 2011, issue 7, 431-446

Abstract: Systematic and continuous psychological harassment in the workplace when an employee is attacked and stigmatized by peers or superiors by rumours, intimidation, humiliation, discrediting and isolating, threatening both emotional and professional skills - this is the definition of the phenomenon called Mobbing. Mobbing is not only extremely widespread in the world of work, but has considerable effects on psycho individual, psychosocial and psycho organizational plan, seriously affecting a person's destiny, the more its performance in the workplace. This descriptive paper, which will be the base for a further research, aims to raise awareness and widespread public and political opinion on this phenomenon so that organizations, regardless of their size, to be obliged to introduce a program for prevention and elimination, considering that very few abused people address to specialized institutions asking for the appropriate solution.

Keywords: mobbing; psychological effects; awareness; prevention; solution; research. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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