Workplace bullying / Mobbing
am 15.07.2006 von http://transblawg.eu
The word Mobbing in German annoys a lot of English speakers, who see it as a false anglicism. On the legal aspects I can recommend a wonderful book by Maga Petra Smutny, Richterin des Landesgerichts für Zivilrechtsachen in Vienna and Dr. Herbert Hopf, Hofrat des Obersten Gerichtshofs: Ausgemobbt! Wirksame Reaktionen gegen Mobbing (for links see below). It’s a book written for the person on the Vienna omnibus, but by well-informed judges.
The equivalent English terms are (workplace) bullying, harassment and (employee) abuse.
According to the book, Mobbing is an artificial word (Kunstwort) taken from the English (to mob = umringen / attackieren), but in the last instance from the Latin (vulgus mobile = aufgewiegelte Volksmenge). It was first used in a scientific sense in the 1950s, by Konrad Lorenz, referring to a group attack of geese on a single fox.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Swedish doctor Peter-Paul Heinemann applied the term to human conduct, group violence among children. And in the 1980s and 1990s, Heinz Leymann, in Sweden, applied it to adult working life, referring to an escalating type of conflict in the workplace.
Certain elements of Mobbing can be agreed on: it can originate from one person or a group. It is characterised by unequal power structures: boss against employee, group against individual. It is systematic. There must be a certain frequency and duration. The aim is to isolate and finally exclude the bullied person.
Smutny and Hopf cite a large number of cases and legal sources in German and Austrian …
Prayer for Relief: Mobbing
German American Law Journal :: American Edition / CK - Washington.& emsp; Mobbing is a popular German term and apparently unrelated to the English word. Search engines point to unsatisfactory personal interaction in the area of employment relations and elsewhere, similar to harassment, bullying, or…
Workplace bullying in court/Mobbing die Zweite
Transblawg / On July 15 I wrote about the word Mobbing (workplace bullying). Today the Guardian reported on a case at Deutsche Bank in London under the heading City woman wins £800,000 damages over bank bullies. The article even uses the word mobbing, albe…
Mobbing
Transblawg / Mobbing is another topic I've discussed before (here and here). This is a word that English speakers regard as a German invention and German speakers regard as an English invention. It did in fact start in English, but it was very widely taken o…
Mobbing im Deutschlandfunk
JuracityBlog / Mobbing im Deutschlandfunk? Nein, es wird nicht gemobbt im Sender, sondern am 29.08.2008 wurde eine Sendung mit vier Studioexperten ausgestrahlt, die Eva Bahner zum Thema Mobbing: Der Feind in meinem Büro moderierte. Eingeladen waren die Mob…
Keine Sperrzeit bei Mobbing
JuracityBlog / Â Eine Sperrzeit kann die Arbeitsagentur nicht anordnen, wenn ein Arbeitnehmer wegen Mobbing selbst gekündigt hat. Niemand verlangt, dass ein Arbeitnehmer im Job seine Gesundheit riskiert und sich weiterem Mobbing aussetzt. Allerdings erwartet d…
Mobbing? - Mobbing!
staatsrecht.info / Nach einer Studie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München wird jedes 25. Kind mindestens einmal pro Woche von Mitschülern attackiert. Die Autoren kommen damit auf 500.000 Mobbing-Opfer. Das ist schlimm - vor allem deshalb, weil Eltern und Lehre…
» German American Law Journal :: American Edition
German American Law Journal American Edition : A forum for information sharing in the areas of German and American law, mainly where the two intersect, vary or intrigue.
» bol.at | Bücher: Ausgemobbt. von Petra Smutny, Herbert Hopf
» buecher.de - Bücher | Online | Portofrei
» Workplace bullying resources in the USA and North America
American workplace bullying sites and links to resources for tackling bullying in America
© 2004-2008 JuraBlogs | Impressum
