Psychological harassment at work

Posted By: Aday Rodriguez

Psychological harassment is vexatious behaviour that manifests itself in the form ofconduct, verbal comments, actions or gestures characterized by the following criteria:

They are repetitive.

They are hostile or unwanted.

They affect the person's dignity or psychological integrity.

They result in a harmful work environment.

A few common ways in which harassment is expressed:

. Making rude, degrading or offensive remarks.

. Making gestures that seek to intimidate, engaging in reprisals.

. Discrediting the person: Spreading rumors, ridiculing, humilliating.

. Preventing the person from expressing him or herself.

. Isolating the person.

. Destabilizing the person making fun of him/her.

Vexatious behaviour is humiliating or abusive behaviour that lowers a person's self-esteem or cuses him/her torment.

Psychological harassment may come from a superior, a colleague, agroup of colleagues, a customer, a supplier...

A single serious incidence of such behaviour may also constitute psychological harassment if it undermines the person's psychological or physical integrity and if it has a lasting harmful effect.

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