Harassment on the Workplace

Bullying and society.

At the moment stress, mobbing, the syndrome to be burnout, the sexualharassment and, even the ergonomic risks, are some of news labor risks that are beginning to become the factors that more problems cause to the good operation of the companies. The new labor risks arise from the new structure of the work (competitiveness, the new companies and the change of the society that are acquiring as much importance as the physical security. Between these risks we can emphasize like the most significant ergonomic risks, the exhibition to electromagnetic fields or the psycho-social ones like mobbing. According to the experts we have to redesign the organitzación of the work to cover the expectations with the worker. Mobbing, burnout and stress, are the problems with more presence in the labor world.

What is burnout? We can see it in people who maintain a constant and direct relation with other people: doctors, nurses, professors... the expectations of these professionals, at first, were vocations: a way to help the others, to improve its conditions for life and that, some cases become the origin of the failures of these professionals.

What is stress? The encyclopedia says to us,: "Situation for a person, or some of its organs, that can demand of them a yield very superior to the normal one, puts them in risk of becoming ill.

And what we can say of mobbing? Mobbing takes place when the fellow workers (horizontal harassment ), or superior ones (vertical harassment), they begin to do empty occurring a situation of hostility. These situations cause a hard weakness in the harassed people, as much physical as psychically. SEDISEM is centered in mobbing.

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