CURRENT STATE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEM OF MOBBING

Abstract

In the context of the modern stressful labor market, mobbing prevention in organizations becomes very relevant as bullying towards an employee from the staff, its certain persons, or a chief happens increasingly frequently. Conflict interaction affects the health and mental state of an object of bullying, creates a toxic working climate, and adversely affects financial indicators: labor efficiency goes down, employee turnover increases, and the staff becomes less consolidated. It is necessary to understand the prevention of this problem. The paper deals with identifying the peculiarities of mobbing in organizations and specifying the list of prompt preventive measures against bullying. Based on the results of contemporary studies, the author carried out a theoretical review and analysis of the mobbing process structure and identified the most sensitive professions. Using the proposed typologies of the mobbing process initiators (subjects), the paper presents the evident personal attributes of bullies and their stereotypic strategies in working teams. The author highlights factors raising a possibility that a person will be chosen as a mobbing object and the most common mobbing actions against such person. As a result of the study, the author created a list of preventive measures in an organization ensuring timely identification of the mobbing process and overcoming the bullying forms existing among the staff. The paper suggests the counteracting, preventing, correcting, and controlling measures, which, when timely carried out, will promote the solving of mobbing problems in organizations.