CHARACTERISTICS MOBBING IN THE MILITARY ENVIRONMENT Cover Image

KARAKTERISTIKE MOBINGA U VOJNOJ SREDINI
CHARACTERISTICS MOBBING IN THE MILITARY ENVIRONMENT

Author(s): Radomir Čolaković
Subject(s): Psychology, Military policy
Published by: Fakultet za pravne i poslovne studije dr Latar Vrkatić
Keywords: Mobbing; the army; the definition; characteristics;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, based on the professional experience of the author, in dealing with military collectives, from the standpoint of military psychology and military psychopathology, are given basic characteristics of mobbing in the military environment. Besides this, the work presents the first descriptive, specifying and stimulative, definition of military mobbing. As a form of communication in the military work environment, which is in its essential nature unfriendly, unethical and tantamount to psychological abuse of military leaders, mobbing is the attack on human and civil rights of man, on the dignity and integrity of the person, the family of the victim, the army, the defense system of a country. He is the author of the article, based on many years of experience as a military psychologist, so to speak, “first hand”. We presented specific characteristics of mobbing in the military environment through certain empirical whole. These are: the specificity of the military environment, the military definition of mobbing, mobbing indicators in the military and the collective consequences of mobbing in the military collective.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 56-64
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian