So how do you respond to the boorish attacks of your superiors?

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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