As conseqüências do assédio moral no ambiente de trabalho

Abstract

Moral harassment is a problem that exists since the foundation of human relation. It has become in recent years a strong social concern because it is a violence that causes extremely negative impacts on the health and welfare of the victim because of the damage it causes. However, especially in the work relations, it is considered a new phenomenon from the point of view of its visibility. The discussion about the subject on the work environment is in full development, as it can be evidenced by publications of doctors, psychologists, administrators, unions, labor lawyers, worldwide. This demonstrates the concern of professionals of several areas, for the effective protection of interests of the people involved in that relationship. However, the legal and social visibility of the phenomenon has not yet taken the proportions necessary for its effective prevention and punishment. The whole time, countless victims are excluded from work, either because they are forced to resign or leave is medical license, either because they are induced to commit mistakes that justify a just cause demission. For this reason, the objective of this work is to contribute to amplify the legal and social visibility called work moral harassment. Thus, the work is proposed to clarify the moral harassment at work, through the study of the phenomenon in its origins, profile of those involved, methods, and their specificities in the work environment, as characterizing elements, focusing the violation of dignity of the human been and on the purpose of exclusion of the victims of the workplace which shows arbitrary and perverse discrimination. And to study in which ways the phenomenon receives the shelter of the Brazilian legal system, especially in light of the fundamental constitutional precepts that protect the people, and to understand the magnitude of the consequences that can generate to the victims health, to the aggressors, the environment of work, for the employer, for the organization of the company in order to devise policies for the prevention and solution to the problem. The research involves an interdisciplinary study, with analytical instruments from Medicine, Psychology, Administration and Law, through the technique of literature review, analysis of texts, journals, literature and the Brazilian legal position, as well as study of legal state, description of facts, stated or propositions, including the reconstruction of arguments of the analyzed authors, properly cited, critical position and exposure of arguments, ideas and solution to the problems raised. Remain that the information is the best weapon to prevent and combat this social problem.