The Organizational Structure Affects the Occurrence of Mobbing

摘要

Mobbing is a specific kind of pathological behaviour in the workplace which includes psychological abuse by one or more persons, a longer period of time, with intent to endanger human dignity and integrity of the victim of mobbing. Numerous research revealed that there are massive social and economic losses due to frequent absences from work, changes of jobs, premature retirements etc. Our investigation included 412 respondents working in health care organizations. The results indicate that 39% of respondents were exposed to a certain form of mobbing in investigating period. They were exposed to a great extent to mobbing activities which represent an attack on professional status, quality of professional work such as: excessive control by superiors, blaming for failures that hadn't really happened as well as ignoring suggestions; but also activities which represent an assault on capacity for social relations and activities which represent an assault on personal reputation. Authors find it important to recognize the organizational and cultural origins of mobbing phenomena in certain countries.