Maureen Duffy and Len Sperry
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195380019
- eISBN:
- 9780199932764
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380019.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter discusses the impact of workplace mobbing on job performance. How mobbing can result in voluntary or involuntary loss of employment with associated losses of health and retirement ...
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This chapter discusses the impact of workplace mobbing on job performance. How mobbing can result in voluntary or involuntary loss of employment with associated losses of health and retirement benefits is examined, along with the compelling research about job disengagement in the wake of workplace mobbing and the impact of mobbing on victims’ beliefs in a just world. The vulnerability of mobbing victims to loss of a primary source of their identity in the world—that of occupation and career, associated financial losses, and real threats to reemployability is also discussed. It is argued that the notion that people who are mobbed or who otherwise suffer workplace abuse can solve it by changing jobs is a misleading one and that mobbing creates employment double-binds for its victims that do not necessarily end by leaving or changing jobs, as necessary as that may be at times.Less
This chapter discusses the impact of workplace mobbing on job performance. How mobbing can result in voluntary or involuntary loss of employment with associated losses of health and retirement benefits is examined, along with the compelling research about job disengagement in the wake of workplace mobbing and the impact of mobbing on victims’ beliefs in a just world. The vulnerability of mobbing victims to loss of a primary source of their identity in the world—that of occupation and career, associated financial losses, and real threats to reemployability is also discussed. It is argued that the notion that people who are mobbed or who otherwise suffer workplace abuse can solve it by changing jobs is a misleading one and that mobbing creates employment double-binds for its victims that do not necessarily end by leaving or changing jobs, as necessary as that may be at times.
