Workplace Harassment: An Undeclared Conflict
15 December 2009
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In the workplace, we can identify two types of conflicts: declared and undeclared conflicts. When a conflict is declared and therefore open, a person can defend their position and choose their side. But when a conflict has not broken out and remains undeclared, it leads to moral harassment, full of unspoken words...
When a conflict leads to harassment
It must be said that conflicts have a bad reputation in any company and can harm the brand image of the latter. When a conflict takes the form of harmful behavior associated with "low blows", hurtful words, or targeted mistreatment, it can lead to harassment.
Workplace harassment is a form of violence because it kills a part of the victim's psychological identity, their motivation, their sense of belonging... and therefore leads to a decrease in their productivity.
The ostrich policy
The most common behaviors in the face of harassment are avoidance, silence, and indifference. That said, these attitudes, associated with the ostrich policy, have a price because they are often accompanied by stress, fatigue, anxiety, depression, isolation...
All these symptoms are destructive in the long run and in excess. Harassment undermines the dignity and respect of the victim, while jeopardizing their working conditions, which become untenable...
To get out of the vicious cycle of moral harassment at work, it is better to confront your "aggressors" and clearly express the sources of the "undeclared" conflict before it leads to physical and moral destruction...
Posted on December 16, 2009
The Team ReKrute.com
When a conflict leads to harassment
It must be said that conflicts have a bad reputation in any company and can harm the brand image of the latter. When a conflict takes the form of harmful behavior associated with "low blows", hurtful words, or targeted mistreatment, it can lead to harassment.
Workplace harassment is a form of violence because it kills a part of the victim's psychological identity, their motivation, their sense of belonging... and therefore leads to a decrease in their productivity.
The ostrich policy
The most common behaviors in the face of harassment are avoidance, silence, and indifference. That said, these attitudes, associated with the ostrich policy, have a price because they are often accompanied by stress, fatigue, anxiety, depression, isolation...
All these symptoms are destructive in the long run and in excess. Harassment undermines the dignity and respect of the victim, while jeopardizing their working conditions, which become untenable...
To get out of the vicious cycle of moral harassment at work, it is better to confront your "aggressors" and clearly express the sources of the "undeclared" conflict before it leads to physical and moral destruction...
Posted on December 16, 2009
The Team ReKrute.com
