Mobbing at work

Daria Nevskaya's interview with Lithuanian National Radio about workplace bullying.

Continuing the topic raised in the video “How to respond to boorish attacks from management”, Daria Nevskaya shares her case study.

Mobbing is not an individual problem. In fact, this is a serious problem for the organization, which jeopardizes its survival.

As a litmus test, the economic crisis revealed the inability of victim society to resolve labor conflicts associated with mass layoffs in a civilized manner. Now they are fired either quietly and despicably, or, accusing the departure candidate of all deadly sins without renewing his contract, or they wash the resisting employee into powder.

Why the main weapon of mobbers and emotional rapists is a lie. It is difficult to refute a lie when “respected” people lie in order to destroy a person who is actively resisting unfair treatment and violence.

How to counter office bullying by a new manager?

According to a study of working conditions in European countries by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), on average, 4-5% of employees in the European Union experience psychological violence — mobbing — at the workplace. The consequences of mobbing on the activities of an employee and organization can be very serious.

Mobbing is collective psychological terror, harassment against an employee by his colleagues, subordinates or superiors in order to force him/her to leave their place of work.

Psychotherapist Yekaterina Sigitova wrote a manual not for victims, but for the initiators and participants in the bullying. What roles does stalking a victim divide people into, how to find out what risk group you are in, recognize your bad tendencies, and how to continue working with them.

According to the federal government, approximately 2.7% of employees in all age and professional groups are mobbed. General provisions regarding mobbing at the workplace What are the specific actions

Mobbing — (from English mob — crowd) — psychological harassment, mainly group, of an employee by an employer or other employees, including constant negative statements and constant criticism of the employee

In Russia, 5 to 20 percent of employees become victims of office terror. According to experts, almost every fifth working Russian faces “mobbing” (from English mob — crowd) — psychological violence in the form of harassment of an employee in a team. As a rule, with a view to his subsequent dismissal. The result is, at best, wasted nerves and loss of work, at worst, ruined health. Almost every fifth working Russian, according to experts, faces “mobbing” (from English mob — crowd) — psychological violence in the form of bullying an employee in a team. As a rule, with a view to his subsequent dismissal. The result is, at best, wasted nerves and loss of work; at worst, poor health.

All sorts of injustices at work have been happening to us ever since humanity started working collectively and then pushed itself into confined office spaces

In a simplified sense, mobbing is the phenomenon when a team or part of it takes up arms against one or more of its members in order to expel them. A young specialist can also become a victim of mobbing.

Research results in the field of workplace mobbing suggest the need to adopt anti-mobbing laws and tighten laws related to harassment and emotional abuse.

What does workplace bullying look like? How do you know that this is mobbing and they want to get rid of you, fire you or subdue you? Signs of mobbing/bullying in the workplace.

In any field of knowledge, there is bound to be not just a good specialist, but a very good specialist who has made a significant contribution to the development and promotion of knowledge. Bullying also has its own guru. His merit is that back in 1997 he created a resource on the Internet called Bully OnLine, where anyone who is a victim of bullying, might get help.

Experts estimate that one in five employees experience violence and abuse at the workplace. Constant criticism, nit-picking, humiliating, and setting things up cause employees to lose self-confidence, become depressed, or even worse. Approximately 15-20% of all suicides are committed as a result of psychological terror at work.

Have you ever felt like you don't want to go to a job you once loved? Have you ever been harassed by colleagues or superiors?