Surviving Workplace Mobbing: Understanding the Dynamics and Taking Action

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Social mobbing is a social psychological term that refers to bullying of an individual in a social context like school, work, community, or residence. The mobbing tendencies in the workplace include: persistent and drawn-out harassment or intimidation, humiliation, social exclusion, being purposefully misled work duties, unclear direction, incorrect dates, criticism, and incorrect reporting among others. The perilous query is why people engage in such barbaric actions. Various researchers on this topic have consigned the chronic abnormal behaviors to; narcissistic personality, inferiority complex, jealousy, and poor institutional infrastructures. The long-term impact of social mobbing on an individual causes anxiety at the workplace, persistent insecurity, and weakness. In a workplace, a lack of established ethical values and culture has contributed to untold ill actions among the employees themselves and employers to employees.…
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The Benefits of Differentiation of Self in Your Relationship: Why It’s Worth the Effort

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Differentiation of self is a concept by Bowen’s system theory (1950’s) which explains an individual’s capacity to be flexible and act wisely, and maintaining one’s sense of self whether close to or a great distance from others. In simple terms, it refers to a process of not losing connection to self while holding a deep connection to others, including those you love when their views may differ from yours. Bowen conceptualized two levels of differentiation high and low. People who have low differentiation or undifferentiated have the following characteristics; emotional reaction, impulsive behavior, dependency on others, conflict easily with people, low autonomy, and increased emotional reactivity to those around them. These traits make social relationships very difficult for people with low differentiation of self. On the other hand, a differentiated…
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