Organizational Mobbing and its Generating Organizational Factors

One of the extensive forms of organizational and interpersonal misbehaviors in workplace is organizational mobbing and it means collective abuse of employees by a colleague or some other type of psychological harassment by a person who, by putting psychological pressure on the person, destroys her personality and interferes with regular, continuous, and permanent organizational tasks. Concerning the importance of mobbing and its negative consequences, identifying and preventing organizational mobbing behaviors plays a vital role in employees’ mental and physical health and in improving organizational productivity and efficiency. Hence, the present study aims to identify organizational factors which generate mobbing in an organization. In terms of purpose, this study is an applied one and it is a descriptive survey-type in terms of data collection and applied through Delphi technique. The statistical population consists of all experts familiar and involved in employees’ problems with specialty and experimental backgrounds selected purposefully. Ultimately, 29 experts participated in three Delphi turns and answered a Delphi questionnaire. First, by studying the related literature, 29 generating organizational mobbing were identified. Then, experts were provided with these 29 factors and by their modifications, finally 31 on factors were recognized in three Delphi turns. To measure the rate of experts’ concurrence, Kendal’s correlation coefficient was calculated. Delphi was implemented in three turns. As a result, 31 generating organizational mobbing factors were categorized in five groups: structural factors, behavioral – cognitive factors, occupational factors, managerial factors and cultural factors.