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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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