Workplace mobbing is an extreme form of workplace bullying where ‘mobbing’ refers to group acts of aggression generally targeting a single worker.[1] This more complex phenomenon is found in larger organizations [2] and often rooted in toxic workplaces.
"Mobbing can be understood as the stressor to beat all stressors. It is an impassioned, collective campaign by co-workers to exclude, punish, and humiliate a targeted worker. Initiated most often by a person in a position of power or influence, mobbing is a desperate urge to crush and eliminate the target. The urge travels through the workplace like a virus, infecting one person after another. The target comes to be viewed as absolutely abhorrent, with no redeeming qualities, outside the circle of acceptance and respectability, deserving only of contempt. As the campaign proceeds, a steadily larger range of hostile ploys and communications comes to be seen as legitimate."[3]
References
edit- ^ Shallcross, Linda (2003-10-16). "The Workplace Mobbing Syndrome, response and prevention in the public sector" (PDF). p. 1.
- ^ Duffy, Maureen; Sperry, Len (2013-12-02). Overcoming Mobbing: A Recovery Guide for Workplace Aggression and Bullying. Oxford University Press. pp. xiii. ISBN 9780199344680.
- ^ Westhues, Prof. Kenneth. "Mobbing :: At the Mercy of the Mob - A Summary of Research on Workplace Mobbing". Retrieved 2015-09-09.