THE EFFECTS OF MOBBING ON THE WORKING CAPABILITY OF EMPLOYEES

Abstract

Mobing represents humiliation, ridiculing, spying and psychological terror that happens at the work place. This behavioral pattern happens periodically and indicates how one person treats the other, in which one person is constantly mistreated and humiliated in an attempt to jeopardize his or her reputation, dignity and self-respect. The variety of mobing indicate mobing focused on how subordinate person treats superior person and the other way around which is actually more common in practice.

Mobing represents the disorderly patterns in interpersonal relationships at the work place, without justifed reason or any meaning, has negative consequences on the subordinate person and his or her family, institution that he or she is a part of and wider community.

Most often the victims of mobing are the individuals who are very unique in their way of thinking and logic, they are the best and the most educated people, and usually they represent the threat and the competition to their colleagues. Most commonly they could be the individuals that face retirement, but sometimes even the most ambitious young people or people with different sexual orientation.

Aside from the mere causes of mobing, the most important question is the consequences mobing has on an individual. Most commonly these consequences are disruptions in the behaviour and mood, but even more often somatic symptoms when the individuals feel lost in time and space, have numerous psychological disorders that reflects on many exaples in practice.

We think that the effects or mobing are permanent and incomprehensible. Physical abuse is the easiest to detect and prove, but there is also a “silent” mobing, the one that humiliates the dignity of employees and destroys their psyche. That exaple of mobing is hardest to detect even though it’s consequences are incomprehensible.