Understanding Workplace Violence: The Case of Psychological Harassment
Translated from the French by Cadenza Academic Translations
Pages 9 to 24
Cite this article
- POILPOT-ROCABOY, Gwénaëlle,
- Poilpot-Rocaboy, Gwénaëlle.
- Poilpot-Rocaboy, G.
https://doi.org/10.3917/hume.296.0009
Cite this article
- Poilpot-Rocaboy, G.
- Poilpot-Rocaboy, Gwénaëlle.
- POILPOT-ROCABOY, Gwénaëlle,
https://doi.org/10.3917/hume.296.0009
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Professor in HRM, IGR-IAE Rennes, Graduate School of Management, University of Rennes 1, France, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM UMR CNRS 6211) <gwenaelle.poilpot@univ-rennes1.fr>
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Narcissistic perverts are “psychotics without symptoms, who find balance by discharging the pain they do not feel and the internal contradictions they refuse to see onto others. They do not ‘deliberately’ cause pain. They do so because they do not know how to exist otherwise. They were damaged in their childhood; this is their method for coping in life. The transfer of pain onto another allows them to value themselves, to the cost of the other” (Hirigoyen, 1998).
The aim of this contribution is to understand one of the forms of violence at work: psychological harassment. Widely used, to the point where people can no longer understand or identify it, this concept today risks becoming trivialized. However, it is an important and serious “issue,” the effects of which are detrimental to the individual who is its target, the organization that makes it possible, and the society that suffers from it. This contribution proposes to identify this concept and to understand the process in order to better combat it.
Keywords
- psychological harassment
- mobbing
- bullying
Publisher keywords: bullying, mobbing, psychological harassment
L’objectif de cette contribution est de comprendre l’une des formes de violence au travail : le harcèlement psychologique. Très largement employé ou point de ne plus le comprendre ni de le cerner, ce concept prend le risque aujourd’hui de se banaliser. Or, il s’agit bien d’une « affaire » importante et sérieuse dont les effets sont néfastes pour l’individu qui en est la cible, l’organisation qui le rend possible et la société qui le subit. Cette contribution propose donc de cerner ce concept et d’en comprendre le processus dans un but de mieux le combattre.
Publisher keywords: harcèlement psychologique au travail, processus de harcèlement psychologique