Perspectiva psicojurídica del mobbing

Abstract

Work harassment or mobbing is a phenomenon that develops in the public sphere and has serious consequences in the private sphere, affecting not only psychically but also physically the victim. The difficulty in finding official data on this problem is proof of the silent nature that permeates these abuse processes. Due to the above, it is necessary that from the legal psychology the modification of the organizational climate be promoted and the protection of the dignity of the people who are affected by the mobbing be sought, taking into account that it is a psychosocial phenomenon and not individual. In that sense, Law 1010 of 2006 presents difficulties that will be exposed in a general way in light of some of the many definitions that have been built on workplace harassment. Indeed, legal psychology provides instruments for the expert evaluation of the victim with the objective of identifying the characteristics, psychological, emotional damages for the causal link and damages that the worker faces after being exposed to the harassment, thus showing an area that gives importance to the study of human behavior in the face of legal rights and responsibilities.