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Organizational context and mobbing: towards a "ransparent organization"
Journal Title: STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI  
Author/s:  Caterina Muzzi 
Year:  2018 Issue: 1 Language: Italian 
Pages:  24 Pg. 64-87 FullText PDF:  258 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SO2018-001003
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The paper deals with the relationship between organizational context and the risk of mobbing episodes within the firm. The main factors analyzed here are: the degree of organizational formalization and hierarchy, organizational identity, culture and values, internal communication practices, leadership and performance management process. As the firm, with its socially shared and enacted norms and procedures, represents the framework where mobbing may develop, it could go towards transparency, meant as the ability to prevent dysfunctional dynamics emergence.
Keywords: Mobbing, organizational context, hierarchy, communication, identity, performance management

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Caterina Muzzi, Organizational context and mobbing: towards a "ransparent organization" in "STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI " 1/2018, pp. 64-87, DOI:10.3280/SO2018-001003

   

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