Mobbing in organizations

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The findings indicated that the mobbed employees reported higher absenteeism. For example, 13% of targets were absent for 4 to 5 days, and 16% reported to take more than 5 days leave. The absenteeism rates for the unexposed were only 9% and 11%, respectively.ConclusionsThe banking sector survey investigated the consequences of workplace mobbing for individuals and organization. The findings confirm the findings of all the other research on the issue that mobbing in an organizationdoes not only impact the victim, but also extends progressively to the organization per se.In the banking sector survey, the victims of mobbing reported emotional and physical health problems such as anxiety, headaches, ulcers, sleeplessness and losing of a sense of humor. They also scored lower on job satisfaction than the unexposed group. 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