Different types of work violence
Introduction.
According to the Office of Advice on Labor Violence, the term of work violence would represent any action aimed at directly or indirectly cause physical, moral damage, depending on the case, towards a worker, a sea as a threat or consummated action, includinggender violence, psychological, moral and sexual harassment at work, an aspect that with the constant proof of higher hierarchical levels, of the same range or lower.
Developing.
Work violence is raised as a set of deployed behaviors that destroys the work capacity of employees and also their physical and psychic integrity in time. It is defined as a form of abuse of power that has as its purpose the exclusion or something of the other. In most cases, it is exercised by a superior, but it can also come from a partner. It affects the health and well -being of people who are in the work environment.
Cebey and Trotta, mention different types of violence in the field of work: initially abuse, behavior that humiliates, degradation or implies lack of respect for the dignity and value of an individual. As a second aspect, harassment, a repeated behavior that aims to torment or frustrate a person. This aspect is divided into sexual harassment:
- Sexual end.
- Use sexual references to humiliate, intimidate or assault.
- Choose the victim for reasons of her sex.
Racial harassment is a threatening behavior that bases race, color, tongue, etc. Another concept is that of threat, that Cebey and Trotta, express that it is a promise of use of physical force or power that results in fear of physical, sexual, psychological or other negative consequences. Moral harassment refers to an intentional and persistent process that encompasses all types of abusive behavior that threatens the psychic or physical integrity of a person or against their dignity, endangering their employment or doing a degrading work environment.
- Likewise, the complaint of irregularities is a form of harassment aimed at people who denounce irregularities or dysfunctions within the system. The term sanding, frequently, has to do with group pressures aimed at the interesting ones of the organization. Finally, bullying or mobbing accounts for an offensive, repeated and sustained behavior in time, and is related to the humiliation or dismembrance of a worker or a group. We could also name a new form of work violence, identify cyber-acoso, which is carried out through media stories such as text messages, cell phones, blogs, social networks, implying continuous, virtual and intentional harassment.
Finally, according to the Awareness and Prevention Manual on Labor Violence in Business Organizations (2016), work violence can manifest itself in different actions: overload or decreased task allocation, lack of labor regulatory information, lack of training for trainingMedium pictures, shutter of communication channels, direction with negative leaderships, non -transparent forms of promotion, non -existence of debate spaces that enable the opinion of workers.
According to OAVL, labor violence is not considered labor conflicts, that is, the divergences or relationship difficulties between people or for claims affected to working conditions;The organizational demands, keeping due respect to the dignity of the worker and his patrimonial rights excluding all forms of abuse of rights, provided that they are in accordance with the employment contract and real needs of the organization;work stress as a consequence of an activity or task that manifests itself in a series of psychological and physical alterations;The Burn out, which manifests itself in episodes of depersonalization and feeling of low personal fulfillment.
- Phases of labor violence: the Manual of Awareness and Prevention of Labor Violence in Business Organizations, distinguishes four phases belonging to this phenomenon: confusion, which: at the beginning it usually has a trigger factor, which can be of naturedifferent according to each case. This factor is followed by a period of criticisms and attacks without foundation, the attacked person will try to give this and this will result in a high level of stress. Subsequently the reaction, where the victim opponent resistance, tries to face, stress increases. During this situation it is likely that the person makes mistakes, and before each error the discredit of the target person of the harassment is increasing.
- Then the stigma: the victim is stigmatized and in the face of all this situation the person is completely overwhelmed, surgically physical and psychic disorders that could end in work casualties. The solution, when the loss begins a path in search of justice and recognition, which is difficult to achieve without help and information.
- Causes of violence: work there are some factors that can increase the possibility of violent acts in the workplace. Violence is usually more frequent in companies in which a very rigid organization prevails (bureaucratized or authoritarian) or very flexible (unstable, precarious, unpredictable), an organization lacking coherent policies and regulations, inoperative or deficit or deficit communication channels and communication channels, with insufficient, ambiguous, late and with an authoritarian or arbitrary command style and where a favor or discriminatory, unequal and vexatatory treatment can be given, where the worker is devalued, where there is a lack of participation in the taking ofdecisions.
Where the demands are excessive, where there is a lack of recognition and support by the bosses and colleagues, where pressures are given to increase productivity, where the templates are inadequate (template shortage, template reductions, layoffs), where theConditions and working climate is stressful and where there is long massification and waiting times.
In addition, violence at work usually occurs in the work that is carried out alone, in which they imply the regular exchange of money with customers, in night work, in the workplaces that have valuable goods, in which they are carried outPrivate security services, which work with public (users, users, customers, passengers, patients, etc.) and in which you work with certain groups conflicts or public security functions are found.
- Consequences of work violence: The impact of work violence on workers’ health can manifest itself in different ways. Continuing with the data provided by the Awareness and Prevention Manual on Labor Violence in Business Organizations, it could be listed, a psychic level, cognitive disorders, permanent alert state, self-refoche, anguish, depression, exhaustion, sensation of unreality fantasies of annihilationFragmentation of identity, sleep disorders, conflicts in emotional relationships and belonging links.
- Then physically with psychosomatic conditions, immunological and oncological pathologies. Filippi, explains that when a person is a victim of some act of labor violence, his job well -being affected is affected. That great male usually relates as much as his house, as his friends, or his personal ties. The feeling of belonging is also deteriorated, being in a certain and specific moment that the subject is impossible to share the work space with colleagues who do not solidarity with him.
- Another aspect that deteriorates in the person interrelated with the feeling of uselessness, since what the worker does and what a useful person feels, from these events he currently returns another image, making him feel useless and incapable. This brings at the same time consequences at the organizational level, since, as a consequence of repeated facts framed within work violence, if you want, it begins to occur among workers, decrease in productivity, waste of the capacities, economic losses and economic losses,social discredit.
conclusion.
The psychological contract, understood as a set of expectations not written in any part, that operate at all times between any member and other members and leaders of the organization, ends up injured. Today a great distance arises between what the company proclaims and what it does, feeling the subject that this contract has been violated.
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