The Impact of Mobbing and Consequences of Workplacediscrimination

Abstract

Mobbing and discrimination are all around us. The terms of mobbing and discrimination appeared twenty years ago. These terms represent specific behavior in the workplace. Mobbing and discrimination in the workplace include individual or group of people targeting a co-worker for mocking, isolation and exclusion from the work, humiliation, etc. Mobbing and discrimination are not something new. There existed and there will be exist in the future in all organizations. Mobbing and discrimination are not just the problem of an individual. There is the problem of the whole society. Mobbing and discrimination create large costs for the whole society and destroys the organization. Prevention of workers is a tool against mobbing and discrimination.
The best prevention against mobbing and discrimination is the awareness of employees, employers, and professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists, and doctors. The aim of the paper is to analyze whether or not is there mobbing and discrimination in the workplace.
In this study is included a survey conducted in the company. The topic of the survey was mobbing and discrimination in the workplace. The survey included 60 people in ages 18-53. The survey contained 20 questions. Respondents had to answer with YES or NO.
The key research questions were about isolation and exclusion from the work, mocking, humiliation, turning others against them and sexual abuse.