Mobbing – an important negative psychosocial factor in working environment
Authors:
K. Wolfová; J. Chaloupka
Authors‘ workplace:
Hradec Králové, přednosta doc. MUDr. Jiří Chaloupka, CSc.
; Klinika nemocí z povolání Lékařské fakulty UK v Hradci Králové a Fakultní nemocnice
Published in:
Pracov. Lék., 61, 2009, No. 2, s. 56-62.
Category:
Original Papers
Overview
Pathological working relationships rank among psychological factors of working environment as well as psychosocial stress and mental work load. The paper presents mobbing and bossing and documents their occurrence on the basis of the survey with a Klaus-Biedermann questionnaire on 42 respondents. 40% of women and 33% of men understand the meaning of at least one concept. 17% of persons, most frequently women with secondary education, are directly endangered with pathological relationships at the workplace. The most frequent complaints of respondents include irritability and insomnia, more frequent morbidity and loss of joy from work. Respondents complain about being undermined in their decisions, restricted in free expression of their opinions, forced to work which endanger their selfconfidence, imitated in their behaviour, ignored by their colleagues and assigned meanigless tasks. Resolving the situation is complicated. It is not only the victim who suffers from mental and health difficulties. Also the company is affected due to increased morbidity and fluctuation of employees. The consequences burden the whole society which invests significant resources to treatment of diseases and reinclusion victims into working process.
Key words:
mobbing, bossing, pathological working relationships, mental load, working environment, stress
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