Mobbing 1 –Health Camp Diaries -XXVII

Mobbing means illegal act of bullying which in an systematic way on the basis of violence. .

In Turkey, 67% of the complaints of psychological harassments is coming from the private sector while reaming 33% is related to public sector.

The terror by the relatives of the patients has not been given a specific name yet, but, “health workers, both in public and private sectors” are employed the line of work where mobbing is observed at highest level.

I guess that every worker among us has been subjected to a different form of violence in his/her work life. Do we know how we can protect ourselves from this situation, which could affect our bio-psycho-social integrity and which is closely related to our health, labor, motivation and our dignity? And what shall we do and when should we do these things?

If you know what is really happening and why it is done, then you could also know “How” to protect yourself from it.

We have compiled the following for you, good readings

Mobbing in “16 Points”

1. In Latin, mobbing is “Mobile vulgus”; which means psychological violence, oppression, harassment, giving disturbance or distress. It is used in the sense of harassment or psychological terror against the work ethics.
2. Briefly, if a person or a group of people is socially bullying somebody, this is called “Mobbing”.
3. Mobbing is an emotional attack. The harassment aims at discrediting the person by disturbing and discomforting him or her regardless of age, race, gender discrimination. It starts with the person being the target of disrespectful and harmful behavior. It is deliberate aggression to exclude person from work life.
4. This situation continues with the employer making innuendos, trying to force the targeted employee to leave the work by establishing an environment of aggression that aims to lower the social credibility of the target person.
5. The studies show that mobbing is widespread at schools and 1healt sector”. The mobbing, which starts with the situation where the employee is deemed worthless, could be observed with varying degrees in different work environments and institutions,, whether public, private of NGO.

6 In work places where the organization is in disorder, it is made with the purpose of bringing order to the work place. And it is legitimized this way.

7. While Leymann stated that 15% of suicides in Sweden were caused by mobbing, Psychologist Michael H. Harrison, in a recent study he conducted with 9000 people, reported that 42% of female employees and 15% of male employees were exposed to bullying with the purpose of intimidation and exclusion.
8. The characteristics of the bully/harasser who practices mobbing: enjoys enmity, looking for pleasure as he or she is bored, coward and neurotic, always looking for more as she/he has lust for power, malevolent and not afraid of taking fraudulent actions.
9. Common characteristics of the victims: having a character compliant with professional ethics and rules; intelligent, skilled, not acting politically at work place, creative, able to create alternatives of different pints of view, successful and /or aspired to have( more) success, honest, reliable, doing his job in a good and even perfect way, he or she is loved by others, with strong values and principles for work, making no concessions from these values and principles, independent and creative, and having superior qualities, especially in comparison to the bully.