Notes - The mobbing is a form of psychological terror

THE Mobbing

The mobbing is a form of psychological terror that is practiced on the place of employment through repeated attacks from others employers and of the managers.

The purpose of the mobbing is that to eliminate a person that is become somehow "wanted not", psychologically destroying her and socially so that to provoke its dismissal or to induce her to the resignations.

THE FORMS (types) of Mobbing

The forms that it assumes are manifold: exclusion, diffusion of slanders, continuous criticisms, systematic persecution, assignment inferior spells to the qualification and the abilities, lesion of the social image, sabotage of the job and other illegal actions.

The searches have, in fact, shown that the causes of the psychological terror on the place of employment go over the factors individuals. The Mobbing can be effected on a person (or a group of people) for jealousy, incapability and not understanding of other people's abilities, but also to force it to resign without workers-right problem list. Real strategies exist business masses in action with this purpose.

The Mobbing has enormous consequences: psychological problems, psychosomatic troubles, depression, insecurity, not sleep and, besides it damages the same firm, meaningful diminution of the productivity where someone is under mobbing.

The Mobbing can bring to the psychological invalidity, therefore can also be spoken of professional illnesses or accidents on the job. According to some searches, in Italy, today they exist over 1000,000 of workers victims of mobbing.

THE BOSSING

The BOSSING is a type of Mobbing that is shown through a business strategy of reduction, rejuvenation or rationalization of the personnel.

The bossing is completed by the executives of the firm with the purpose to induce the dependent to the resignations, without meeting right-workers problems. The bossing can be effected in different way, but all extend to the creation around the person to eliminate of a climate of tension unbearable; severe attitudes, threats, reproaches, at times also sabotages come by the tall one, hardly demonstrable.

At times the firm doesn't have even need to resort to half extreme: it is enough to remove from the dependent him status-symbol, or to entrust to him gods jobs in which he is not only found degraded but also private of the possibility to complete something constructive.

The Bossing exists and is documented in the whole Europe; in Italy it finds particularly favorable conditions thanks to the tall level of unemployment.

SYMPTOMS

• Do you work in a firm where clear signs of discrimination they exist?
• Do you suffer from insomnia (not sleep)?
• When do you have to go to the job felt shaken or do you try panic?
• In the last period your absences are increased because of non organic illnesses?
• Have you become allergic to substances how first they didn't get bother?
• Do you realize to more and more often be depressed without a motive?
• Have you lost your enthusiasm in the job and have you stopped taking initiatives?
• Do your colleagues or your heads continue to accuse you, more covertly of things that don't have done?
• Do you always have great difficulties of concentration?
• Do your colleagues receive charges that get important recognitions?
• The jobs that are entrusted they have the tendency not to have a succession?
• Does to communicate with your heads become more and more difficult, do you have to always pass through colleagues of peer degree?
• Have you been threatened, more covertly, of dismissal or repercussions for your career?

SUGGESTIONS

THESE QUESTIONS ARE PARTIAL - However, if you have answered him to everybody, or almost, the preceding questions it would not perhaps hurt you professionally consult a prepared external help.

ERRORS

• Don't have any ideal in which people can believe
• To listen to people that think only about the money
• To exploit the people friends and to reward the adversaries
• To entrust places of responsibility to incapable people
• Don't remember that the battles can be won only done for improving the situation of whom is more weak
• To help the people that don't have need but they have the face toasts
• Don't understand but the bureaucracy it is the shelter of the incapable ones
• To lie without necessity
• To entrust some jobs that don't produce anything
• Don't understand that to be children of "good woman" doesn't serve if you don't know how to build something of good person
• To pay 100 what is worth 10 and to pay 10 what is worth 100
• To bear the injustices  when instead you can intervene
• To prevent that the other ones can work and to build.

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Translation date: 2001-2004 - Section Job and Workers Culture

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