Mobbing dynamics and consequences
Mobbing dynamics and consequences

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author explains psychological mobbing dynamics and presents selected results of her own mobbing research – especially those demonstrating the consequences of workplace harassment experience. The empirical results discussed in the paper come from the author’s own mobbing research projects, which have been conducted in Poland during the span of the last decade, always on heterogeneous samples of the Polish working population. In all the authors’ studies the SDM Questionnaire was employed, which is an originally Polish, validated and normalized psychometric tool for diagnosing mobbing. The research results described in this paper are indicative of a strong correlations between experiencing workplace mobbing and poor psychological and psycho-somatic state of the mobbing victims. Moreover, workplace harassment leads to some other negative and long-lasting consequences, both on individual as well as organizational level. Mobbing, being one of the most prevalent and severe workplace stressors and interacting with other social and work environment factors, has a significant and damaging effect on the employees’ job satisfaction, task fulfilment, organizational climate and employees’ efficacy. Nevertheless, despite being so prevalent and damaging for organizations and individuals, the mobbing pathology is very often misunderstood by the employers and managers, as well as the employees themselves.

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