Organizational and Socio-Organizational Mobbing Antecedents
Organizational and Socio-Organizational Mobbing Antecedents

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents mobbing as a workplace pathology and correlates it with socioorganizational and organizational culture’s mobbing factors. The author refers to the results of her own research, which was conducted at the turn of the years 2007 and 2008, on a heterogeneous sample (N=465) of working population in Poland. The study was designed in a socio-organizational paradigm, paved by H. Leymann and his followers. The methodology was adjusted to the Polish socio-organizational and cultural context. Among the instruments used in the study there were: an original Polish tool for measuring mobbing called SDM Questionnaire, a number of socio-organizational scales and the Rosenstiel and Bögel’s Questionnaire measuring organizational climate, adopted to the Polish culture. All the methods used have very good statistical parameters and are reliable psychometric instruments. The research results indicate that mobbing in the workplace appears in a specific socioorganizational climate and culture, characterised mostly by poor flow of information, inappropriate communication, invalid task allocation and pervading organizational chaos. Moreover, some „hard” organizational variables proved to be significant for mobbing prevalence. The original research results are compared to similar findings from other European countries.

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