The psychologist Heinz Leymann is the founder of the term “workplace mobbing”. Leymann was studying the consequence of workplace violence in Sweden, to describe a form of organizational pathology in which a group of co-workers essentially joined up to humiliate, degrade and exclude a worker.
Red flag symptoms of being under attack of co-workers (mobbing) are:
- Isolation or marginalization (for example being left out of meetings, being avoided by colleagues, having your office moved).
- Being the object of gossip or badmouthing by colleagues and superiors.
- Experiencing ongoing petty harassment or bureaucratic hassles (for example unusual audit of expense records/finances, misplaced or delayed administrative requests).
- Being given meaningless tasks or assignments far below your qualification.
- Being subjected to ongoing criticism, public humiliation, or ridicule.
How to survive if you have become a target of Mobbing?
1. If you are sure that you are a mobbing target, best you can do - leave the Company - that may sound hard but is the best you can do for your career. Mobbing is not illegal, it becomes illegal when it comes to harassment, for example. If this happen, consider professional help.
2. If you decide to stay in that Company be prepared for the following:
- Be careful by taking on leadership positions
- Always stay cool do not loose emotional control. If you need a vent, talk to your friends or family.
- Make notes and write down everything and keep that on a save place.
- Get the opinion of an outside person, to see if you are may overreacting.
Good Luck from how will I survive.
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