Mobbing (Psychological Violence) in Different Aspects

Abstract

Recently, being a universal fact, mobbing has been attracted academic interest in Turkey as well. Psychological violence in the workplace (mobbing) is a process in which one or more of the employees, for at least 6 months another employee or group, has a variety of behaviors that may threaten mental and physical health, such as long-term and systematic humiliation, prevention of duties. It is a malicious behavior model that aims to expel people from their work by the applying unfair accusations, gossip, humiliation, emotional abuse and psychological violence. Mobbing behaviors happen quite destructive effects on the personnel’s motivation, productivity, job satisfaction, performance and organizational loyalty level. Although mobbing is a phenomenon that can be encountered in every sector, it is more common among employees of education and higher education sector. Mobbing can happen to any employee regardless of gender, age, seniority or educational background.

Keywords

• mobbing
• psychological violence at work
• bullying
• mobbing