title: [Mobbing at work].
abstract: The social psychology has studied the dynamics present in the groups (of work and not) since years 60s: the canalization of the aggressiveness of the group towards some individuals, the conflicts, the theirs administration, the mechanisms of expulsion of the group. The psychology of the work, has studied, those dynamics, in the world of the firms. Lately, the reality of the work has changed. Recently the organizational transformations (fusions) lived in Italy, the flexibility of the work, has caused an exuberance of staff, often not easily administered. The psychologic working violence expanded, generating unemployed persons and becoming a kind of short cut for the firms that, in this way, succeed to resign become inconvenient subordinates. Every day, inside of the firms, a some number of able, capable, responsible and motivated workers bear situations of moral troubles or, as is custom to name them in these years of mobbing.
authors.affiliation: ASL RMC, Ospedale CTO, Rome.
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Spezzaferro
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D012919:Social Behavior; D017132:Workplace / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence