Mobbing in Academia

Conflicts are assumed to be the natural and inevitable aspects of human interaction, and may create functional or dysfunctional consequences according to the way that they are handled. One of the earliest pioneers in the behavioral movement was Mary Parker Follett. Rather than assuming classical management’s stronglyhierarchical position of power in organizations, Follett asserted that power should be cooperatively shared for the purpose of resolving conflict. Creative conflict resolution involves cooperatively working with others to devise novel solutions, often resulting in strong interpersonal benefits.

Many researchers and practitioners have identified reactions to conflict as among the main causes of mobbing in organizations. Mobbing is the nonsexual harassment of a coworker by a group of other members of an organization for the purpose of removing the targeted individual(s) from the organization, or at least a particular unit of the organization .Mobbing involves individual, group, and organizational dynamics. Read more....................