Mobbing

For years, Erik Poutsma (1951) was the driving force behind the research group PARTNER related to the Strategic Human Resource Management group at the Nijmegen School of Management (Radboud University). Erik showed an immense drive to conduct research in the areas of financial participation and new employment relations. This liber amicorum presents a collection of contributions by current and former colleagues, PhD students, fellows from Rutgers University and members of the CRANET research network. Their contributions elaborate the knowledge they gained from the scholarly work they conducted together with Erik and show their warm feelings of appreciation for Erik’s cooperative attitude. From these contributions, we learn that Erik was a real ‘Partner’ with a large social heart, both when it comes to choosing the human aspects of management and when it comes to building sustainable cooperative relationships.

Balance of 25 years of Work & Organizational Psychology: new themes and new methods, practical relevance under pressure Balance of 25 years of Work & Organizational Psychology: new themes and new methods, practical relevance under pressure The aim of this article is – on the base of reviews and content analyses – to describe the developments in Work & Organizational Psychology during the last 25 years. Both the international as well as the national perspective will be considered. It is concluded that there were large differences between the US, the UK and continental European countries as far as priorities in research are concerned. In the Netherlands and Flanders three themes got most attention during the past ten years: (1) employee competencies, learning, and employability, (2) fair labour relations, psychological contracts, and job insecurity, and (3) work stress, fatigue, and burnout. Emerging research areas were job performance, productivity, and innovative behaviour, as well ...

IntroductionThe aim of this study is to investigate mobbing in the Hospitals of Etoloakarnania, Greece. Additionally, this research aims to find out which coping strategies are used by health care professionals who have suffered mobbing and how their quality of life has been affected.ObjectivesThis research aims to depict mobbing phenomenon’s extent and investigate the coping strategies and quality of life of working staff, victims of mobbing.MethodsThe research methodology was based on two questionnaires: LIPT scale and the scale of assessing bullying management strategies, as well as demographic data, which were answered by 130 people. A sufficient sample for the needs of this study to produce comparable results with the existing literature.ResultsMobbing is observed to a large extent of 83.8% , which, however, seems to be at lower levels in relation to corresponding researches abroad. In addition, the majority of respondents who appear to have been harassed at work are mostly wom...

El objetivo de esta investigación fue identificar la relación entre el síndrome de burnout (respuesta a estrés crónico) y el Mobbing (acoso laboral) en docentes que trabajan en la ciudad de Bogotá. Las variables relacionadas se enmarcaron en el modelo tridimensional de Maslach y Jackson (1981) y el modelo de Leymann (1990). Se realizó un diseño no experimental de corte transversal y alcance correlacional con una muestra no probabilística de 124 profesionales. Para la evaluación del Síndrome de Burnout, se utilizó el Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Education Survey (MBI-ES) y para la evaluación del Acoso Laboral, el cuestionario de estrategias de acoso psicológico, LIPT-60 que valora 60 diferentes estrategias de acoso psicológico (González de Rivera & Rodríguez-Abuín, 2003). Los resultados indicaron que el acoso laboral explica el burnout en un 64%.

The threat of predation by snakes is considered to have played a significant role in the evolution of primate sensory systems and behavior. However, we know relatively little about individual and group responses given the rarity of observed predation events. Here we report an observed (filmed) predation attempt by an adult Boa constrictor (~ 2 m) on a juvenile white-faced capuchin (Cebus imitator) in the Sector Santa Rosa of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The snake caught the juvenile monkey on the ground during a terrestrial play session. When the victim screamed, the alpha male, alpha female, and another adult female ran to the scene, physically attacked the snake (with bites and hits), and pulled the victim to safety. Most group members participated in the vocal mobbing of the snake both during and after the attack. Based on the outcomes of this predation attempt and published reports of other B. constrictor attacks on primates, the coordinated efforts of ≥ 2 gr...

Objectives: The research was planned to investigate the survey about the state of nurses who experienced mobbing in Ödemis/İzmir.
Methods: Between November, 1 and January, 30 th in 2009, the research sample composed of totally 128 nurses who worked in Ödemis/İzmir. A registered permission from the instituon which the investigation done and also a verbal permission from the nurses who worked at the same place were taken. Data were collected by researchers using an Individual Identifying Form which included the characteristics of nurses and also ideas of nurses about mobbing and a Mobbing Scale. Data were evaluated by using a SPSS 16.0 version of packed program. For the study, frequency, percentage, means and chi-square(X²) tests; Mann-Whitney U and Independent-Sample t tests were used.
Results: It was determined that the mean of the nurses’ age was 33.46±6.45, 89.8 % of the nurseswere female, 61.7 of them worked for 160-180 hours, 36.7% of them were not pleased to work with their managers. It were determined that 43% of them were experienced mobbing during their professional lives, 35.2% of them mobbed by different healthcare members and 65.6% of them did not have any interest in nursing. Average of mobbing scores was determined as 153.43±60.16 and by the meaning of this result it was observed that nurses were not exposed mobbing. 21.9% of the nurses were exposed mobbing.
Exposure of mobbing was found statistically significant as to sex and monthly working time of nurses. Exposure of mobbing was found statistically non-significant according to their age groups, educational level, professional experience years, the associations that they had been working, working status, interests in their occupation.
Conclusion: One of every five nurses was experienced mobbing. Women and monthly working time of nurses affected the state.

Amaç: Araştırma, İzmir ili Ödemiş ilçesinde çalışan hemşirelerin mobbinge maruz kalma
durumlarının incelenmesi amacıyla planlanmıştır.
Yöntem: Araştırmanın örneklemini 01 Kasım – 30 Ocak 2009 tarihleri arasında İzmir ili Ödemiş
ilçesinde çalışan toplam 128 hemşire oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmanın uygulandığı kurumdan yazılı izin
ve hemşirelerden sözel izin alınmıştır. Veriler araştırmacılar tarafından hazırlanan hemşirelerin
tanıtıcı özelliklerini ve hemşirelerin mobbing ile ilgili düşüncelerini içeren Bireysel Tanıtım Formu ve
Mobbing Ölçeği kullanılarak toplanmıştır. Veriler SPSS 16.0 paket programı kullanılarak
değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırmada sayı, yüzde, ortalama ve ki kare (X²), Mann-Whitney U ve
Independent-Sample t testleri kullanılmıştır.
Bulgular: Araştırmaya katılan hemşireler ortalama 33.46±6.45 yaşında, %89.8’i kadın, %61.7’si
160-180 saat çalışmakta, %36.7’si yöneticilerinden memnundur. Hemşirelerin meslek hayatları
boyunca %43’ünün mobbinge maruz kaldığı, %35.2’si diğer sağlık ekibi üyelerinden mobbinge
uğradıkları ve %65.6’sının hemşirelik mesleğine ilgi duymadığı saptanmıştır. Mobbing puan
ortalaması 153.43±60.16 bulunmuştur ve bunun sonucunda hemşirelerin mobbinge maruz kalmadığı
saptanmıştır. Hemşirelerin %21.9’unun mobbinge maruz kaldığı saptanmıştır.
Hemşirelerin cinsiyetlerine, aylık çalışma saatlerine göre mobbinge maruz kalma durumları
istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bulunmuştur. Hemşirelerin yaş gruplarına, eğitim durumlarına, mesleki
deneyim yıllarına, çalıştıkları kurumlarına, çalışma statüsüne, mesleğe ilgi duymalarına göre
mobbinge maruz kalma durumları istatistiksel olarak anlamsız bulunmuştur.
Sonuç: Her beş hemşireden biri mobbingi deneyimlemektedir. Hemşirelerin kadın ve aylık çalışma
saatinin fazla olması bu durumu etkilemektedir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Hemşirelik, hemşire, mobbing

Prof. Dr. İlhan Başgöz, Balıkesir/Akçay/Güre’de, ilkini 1997’de düzenlediği Türkiye’nin ilk “Folklor Yaz Okulu”nu 2003 yılına kadar özveriyle sürdürmüştü... Bu kitap, İlhan Başgöz’ün Güre yaz kurslarına tanıklığını yazanların metinleriyle ortaya çıktı.

Objective: To identify the prevalence and impact of workplace bullying among pharmacy practice faculty in the United States. Methods: Members of the Pharmacy Practice section of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy were invited to complete an online survey about the frequency with which they experienced negative workplace behaviors in the communication, humiliation, manipulation, discrimination, and violence domains as well as workplace bullying in the previous 12 months. Independent t-tests and chi-squared tests were used to investigate associations between workplace bullying and pharmacy practice faculty demographic and employment characteristics. Results: Participants (n=256) reported a median of 6 negative behaviors in the workplace, most often in the communication and humiliation domains. A total of 50 (19.5%) reported experiencing workplace bullying. The most common impacts of workplace bullying included increasing their stress level (n=44/49, 89.8%), negative effe...

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Colonial nesting in seabirds is advantageous for protection from predators—spotting a predator, mobbing, and predator swamping. Familiarity with nesting areas gives knowledge of protected sites and may promote site fidelity. Familiarity with nearest neighbors helps nesting success by lessening intraspecific aggression and increasing social facilitation, and may promote group adherence. Group adherence has been proposed as more important than site tenacity for some species where nesting areas are frequently disturbed. Ground-nesting terns often nest at disturbed sites, and their colonies are accessible to predators. Serendipitously, I was able to test the concept of group adherence in individually color-marked California Least Terns Sternula antillarum browni during early egg-laying when some nests in a colony in southern California were depredated, and the adults deserted. A week later, I found the majority of those birds nesting at the edge of a small Least Tern colony 28 km distant, where they laid a second clutch and remained at the site the rest of the breeding season. The following breeding season, no color-marked terns nested again at the small colony where they had moved after disturbance.

Amaç: Depresif bozukluklar sık görülmeleri ve kronikleşme riskleri nedeniyle önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunudur. Hekimlerde yoğun eğitim süreci ve zorlu çalışma koşulları nedeniyle sık görülmektedir. Depresyon gelişimi açısından önemli bir risk etmeni olan mobbinge de sağlık sektöründe oldukça sık rastlanmaktadır. Tıpta uzmanlık eğitimi alan hekimler hem depresyon hem de mobbing açısından risk altındadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi’nde mobbing ile depresyon düzeyleri değerlendirilen ve depresyon belirtisi olmayan tıpta uzmanlık öğrencilerinde, mobbing düzeyine göre bir yıl sonraki depresyon belirti insidansını değerlendirmektir. Yöntem: Kohort tipindeki bu araştırmaya 102 kişi katılmıştır (%63.0). Araştırmanın bağımlı değişkeni depresyon belirti varlığı olup Beck Depresyon Ölçeği ile değerlendirilmiştir. Temel bağımsız değişken mobbing düzeyidir ve başlangıç çalışmasında Leymann’ın Uyarlanmış Psikolojik Yılgınlık Ölçeği ile değerlendirilmiştir. Ayrıca ...

El mobbing se reconoce como una línea de trabajo promisoria y de alto impacto sobre el hombre, las organizaciones y la sociedad. En Latinoamérica y en específico en Colombia, se identifica poco desarrollo de la temática, lo que constituye una debilidad frente a las posibilidades de conocer e intervenir sobre ésta, que se acepta como una realidad creciente en el mundo. El objetivo de este artículo es presentar los resultados de la revisión y el análisis del tema del mobbing para Colombia. El documento se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera se sintetizan los principales elementos teóricos de la discusión alrededor del mobbing. En la segunda, se revisa la legislación sobre mobbing en Colombia. En la tercera parte, se presenta el análisis de los trabajos que han realizado las comunidades académicas del país sobre el tema. Para terminar, se argumenta sobre el poco desarrollo del tema en Colombia, el predominio de los trabajos teóricos y desde áreas no administrativas. También se encue...

El mobbing o acoso laboral actualmente se reconoce como un fenómeno de alto impacto sobre las personas, las organizaciones y la sociedad. En Latinoamérica y en específico en Colombia, se identifica poco desarrollo de la temática, lo que constituye una debilidad frente a las posibilidades de conocer, identificar e intervenir sobre esta problemática realidad creciente en las organizaciones. El objetivo de esta investigación es presentar los resultados de la revisión teórica y el análisis de la prevención del acoso laboral en Colombia. El documento se divide en cuatro partes. En la primera, se sintetizan los principales elementos teóricos de la discusión alrededor del mobbing. En la segunda, se revisa la legislación sobre el acoso laboral en Colombia, y las responsabilidades que el Estado tiene para la identificación, evaluación, prevención e intervención de los factores psicosociales de riesgo en el trabajo. En una tercera parte, se presentan y analizan algunas medidas y procedimiento...

The purpose of this paper is to show the results of an exploration of published articles concerning research studies conducted in the last 10 years on the subject of violence in the workplace. Sixteen articles were consulted (5 empirical, 11 theoretical) which were published in scientific journals in Colombia, in public and private universities, government institutions, and academic databases. The paper is structured in three parts. The first part presents the methodology. The second presents the results of the exploration, which highlights the problems that have been discussed in research on workplace violence. The third part contains the conclusions about the results. El propósito de este artículo es mostrar los resultados de una exploración bibliográfica concerniente a las investigaciones llevadas a cabo en los últimos diez años, sobre el tema de la violencia en el lugar de trabajo. Se consultaron 16 artículos –5 empíricos, 11 teóricos–, publicados en revistas científicas colombi...

Özet Şiddetle mücadele çabaları toplumlar için acil bir sorun haline gelmiştir, ancak bu çabalara rağmen şiddet her geçen gün artarak devam etmektedir. Neredeyse her gün bireyler, işyerleri, okullar, evler ve kamusal alanlar gibi çeşitli alanlara sızan bir tür şiddete ya maruz kalıyor ya da tanık oluyor. Şiddetin hem toplum hem de birey üzerindeki yansımaları onarılamaz boyuttadır. İş dünyasında, özellikle sağlık kurum ve kuruluşlarında, sağlık çalışanlarını daha fazla risk altına sokan şiddet olaylarındaki artış özellikle endişe vericidir. Sağlık çalışanlarının maruz kaldığı bu artan şiddet riski, sağlanan bakımın kalitesi, hastaların esenliği, meslektaşlar arasındaki uyum, iş verimliliği ve genel iş performansı üzerinde zararlı bir etkiye sahiptir. Sonuç olarak, bu acil şiddet sorununu ele almak için araştırma yapmak ve etkili çözümler geliştirmek zorunludur. Bu kapsamda yapılan araştırmaların amacı, şiddet uygulayan belirli meslek gruplarını tespit etmek ve sağlık çalışanları arasında şiddete en açık meslek grubunu belirlemektir. Ayrıca araştırma, sağlık çalışanlarının maruz kaldığı baskın şiddet biçimini, bu çalışanların sözel, fiziksel ve cinsel şiddetle başa çıkma mekanizmalarını ve sosyodemografik faktörlerin şiddetin ortaya çıkması üzerindeki etkisini belirlemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bulgular, hemşirelerin fiziksel ve cinsel şiddet için en sık hedef alınan grup olduğunu ortaya koydu. Ayrıca, sağlık çalışanları arasında sözlü, fiziksel ve cinsel şiddete karşı en yaygın duygusal tepki öfke olurken, bu çalışanların çoğu şiddetle başa çıkmak için herhangi bir baş etme stratejisi kullanmamayı seçmiştir. Regresyon analizi, diğer sağlık uzmanlarına kıyasla hemşireler ile sözel, fiziksel ve cinsel şiddete maruz kalmaları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir ilişki olduğunu göstermiştir.

Z varstvom človekovih pravic se ukvarjajo številne nevladne organizacije in državne institucije.
Nekatere se ukvarjajo s promocijo in informiranjem o človekovih pravicah, nekatere pa s podporo določenim družbenim skupinam in z varstvom posamičnih pravic. Obrnite se nanje in poiščite konkretno pomoč v vaši situaciji.

Z varstvom človekovih pravic se ukvarjajo številne nevladne organizacije in državne institucije.
Nekatere se ukvarjajo s promocijo in informiranjem o človekovih pravicah, nekatere pa s podporo določenim družbenim skupinam in z varstvom posamičnih pravic. Obrnite se nanje in poiščite konkretno pomoč v vaši situaciji.

El estudio ausculto la relacion entre la civilidad, incivilidad y el bienestar asociado al trabajo de un grupo de 390 empleados en Puerto Rico. Los resultados indican que existen correlaciones positivas y significativas entre la civilidad y las emociones positivas asociadas al trabajo, asi como entre la incivilidad y las emociones negativas asociadas al trabajo. Al comparar por genero, las mujeres obtuvieron puntuaciones mas altas en civilidad y los hombres en incivilidad. El grupo de personas que supervisa obtuvo puntuaciones mas altas en civilidad. Al comparar los empleados de empresas publicas y privadas no se obtuvieron diferencias estadisticamente significativas. Abstract The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between civility, incivility and the job related well-being in a group of 390 employees in Puerto Rico. Results showed positive correlations between civility and job related positive emotions and between incivility and job related negative emotions. W...

Mobbing, a group attack of prey on predator, is a strategy enacted by many animal species. Here we report bacterial mobbing carried out by the bacteriumPseudomonas aeruginosatowardsAcanthamoeba castellanii, a common bacterivore. This behavior consists of bacterial taxis towards the amoebae, adhesion en masse to amoebae cells, and eventual killing of the amoebae. Mobbing behavior transpires in second’s timescale and responds to predator population density. A mutant defective in the production of a specific quorum sensing signal displays reduced adhesion to amoeba cells. This deficiency ameliorated by external addition of the missing signal molecule. The same quorum sensing mutant also expresses long term deficiency in its ability to cause amoeba death and shows higher susceptibility to predation, highlighting the importance of group coordination to mobbing and predation avoidance. These findings portray bacterial mobbing as a regulated and dynamic group behavior.

The aim of this research is to investigate the potential of behavioral nudges to reduce the escape from responsibility in executive systems (public sector). The field of behavioral sciences offers a wide range of nudge interventions that can be implemented at both individual and organizational levels. Therefore, this article attempts to redefine the concept of escape from responsibility in executive systems considering the administrative environment. By statistically analyzing biases in this area, the paper refers to solutions based on the capabilities of nudge theory and the concept of choice architecture to provide access to a more desirable situation in the field of escape from responsibility in the public sector. understanding the underlying psychological underpinnings of this issue and applying the principles of behavioral science, organizations can effectively reduce this issue and foster a culture of responsible management. By empowering managers and by being aware of cognitive biases, promoting collective accountability, and using nudges to change behavior, organizations can create a safer working environment in which managers are motivated and take an active part in fulfilling their responsibilities and duties. This study showed that, according to Iranian experts, the motivational nudges, responsive nudges, and ethically based nudges have a greater and more effective ability to influence the handling of escape from responsibility in public sectors.

En el artículo se presenta una síntesis dedistintos trabajos empíricos que analizanla situación del profesorado universitariorespecto a la aparición de emocionesnegativas durante el desarrollo de su labordocente e investigadora. La revisión revelaque, en conjunto, los profesores universitariosespañoles obtienen unos nivelesmedios de bournout, presentan síntomasde estrés laboral (sobre todo, en las figurasde profesores asociados y ayudantes) ymanifiestan sufrir mobbing en su lugar detrabajo. Por tanto, los datos indican queeste colectivo no están en absoluto exentode los problemas que, característicamente,se asocian a los docentes de niveleseducativos inferiores (Primaria, Secundariay Bachillerato). Estas situacionesredundan muy negativamente en su satisfacciónlaboral, su productividad y susalud física y emocional.

Mobbing could be called the new catastrophic disease that is oppressing humanity in its different work areas and whose consequences range from leaving work to achieve liberation to the presentation of a psychosomatic condition that triggers a more serious disease, in this case, in this context, the present study determined its incidence in teachers of higher education institutions in the province of Manabí. The methodology was based on a quantitative approach, the inventory of violence and psychological harassment was used, at work by assessing 22 aspects related to mobbing, it was applied to a sample of 263 teachers. As a result, this presence was obtained in its various forms, predominating the spread of malicious rumors in the work environment and unfounded perverse criticism that affects an average of the teaching staff equivalent to 42%, exercised mainly by the authorities, colleagues and immediate bosses, In addition, the presence of this problem in higher education institutio...