Moral harassment

[Soldier]

It is qualified as the deliberate deterioration of working conditions where the negative behavior and conduct of superiors are predominant with those reporting to them. This constitutes a subjective experience, which causes real damage for the individual worker and the organization. The victim chosen is isolated from the group without any explanation and subjected to hostile behavior, ridiculed, belittled, shamed, disqualified in front of his or her peers. The peer group out of fear of unemployment and of being shamed in turn, together with constant pressure to increase productivity, breaks off ties with the victim and even reproduces the attitudes of the attacker at the workplace thereby creating a collective silence and tolerance for such behavior while the victim becomes gradually more destabilized and fragile.