It is the moral and psychological harassment that occurs within the workplace no matter who it comes from above, equal to or lower in the hierarchy of the company. It usually with the word mobbing.

It consists of ridicule and marginalize a person, treating it in a derogatory and insulting to abandon their jobs.

How to identify mobbing

In order to be considered bullying at work the following must occur on a repetitive behaviors over time:

·  Changes in labor relations of the victim within the company. He was marginalized, it is not informed about matters relating to their work and it ignores, among other possible practices.

·  Worsening of circumstances at work: rebate or category of the post, assigning too much work or tasks useless and repetitive.

·  Effect of personal relationships within the enterprise through marginalization and exclusion.

·  Effect of personal relationships within the enterprise through marginalization and exclusion.through marginalization and exclusion.

·  Attacks on the personal life of a worker either put it in evidence, or subjecting injuriándolo directly. in evidence, or subjecting injuriándolo directly.

Types of mobbing

According to come who attacks are often differentiated mobbing. Some authors distinguish three types and only two others:

·  It comes from above: it called bossing and occurs in many cases with the intention that the worker leaves the company voluntarily. It consists of making their working lives is as unpleasant as possible so as to force its way.

·  It comes from or less: peers are the ones who harass workers and morally harass him for personal or professional reasons.

Labor Harasser

In mobbing there are two principal figures that the harasser can be a person or a group of them and the victim. or a group of them and the victim. and the victim. The profile of the former is very diverse, but in general it comes to people with little sense of guilt, ambitious, professionally mediocre and envious of the success of others.

The motives for the attacks are very different: the victim is a threat professional, it is another color or religion, has risen very rapidly, it has weaknesses that make it easy target or simply inspired antipathy and intolerance in the aggressor.

Victim of bullying at work

The victims also respond to a fixed profile, but they are usually people who have always paid well in their work and become targets of envy. People also can be the aggressor perceived as weak and an easy target for their attacks.

Generally not respond to the attacks but develop feelings of fear, helplessness, anxiety, panic and even guilt.

Phases of mobbing

The phases that some scholars set out in the development of mobbing are:

·  New conflict: it is important to identify at this point that this is not a common conflict. a common conflict. If this were the case there would be a reason localizable and disappear in a short time.

·  The phase of consolidation: the harasser intensifies attacks and initiates pre others leaving the victim incrédula and passive about what happens

·  Intervention by the company due to the significance of the conflict. If the measures taken are appropriate, the problem ends here.

·  If intervention by the company does not arise effect, there will be a fourth phase in which the victim would be forced to be long periods of low or leave the company and will in some cases psychological help.

What to do in case of mobbing

The first thing is to inform those agencies or entities that can offer help and advice as the works council and trade union representatives.

If you want to start legal proceedings against the harasser, it is first necessary to inform the company of legal actions to be initiated by filing a written document.

The complaint should be made before Labor Inspectorate that the inquiry will begin on time. The biggest problem in these cases is often a lack of evidence and witnesses, either because the latter do not exist or because of fear of retaliation decide not to join.

Remarks

The mobbing should not be confused with normal conflicts that occur in companies Harassment labor unlike the normal personal friction is not coincidental, but there is an intentional and premeditated.