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Harassment refers to a series of behaviors of an offensive nature that disturbs or annoys and that occurs on a recurring basis. It occurs through conduct that humiliates, inferiorizes, ridicules, frightens, offends and destabilizes, for example, a worker in the performance of their duties, threatening their psychological and physical health.
Harassment compromises the performance of employees in the workplace and puts the company's productivity, image and even legal reputation at risk, as it is one of the reasons why an organization has to take legal action. Legally, harassment is behavior that appears to be disturbing and threatening. But what types of harassment can occur? We've listed the main ones here. Check them out!
Bullying
Bullying occurs when a person is exposed to situations of embarrassment, humiliation and persecution on a continuous and prolonged basis. When these situations occur in the workplace, they involve an authoritarian hierarchy that is unprepared for management and teamwork. It is one of the most common types of harassment.
It includes unethical and inhumane practices of abuse of power. Exposing the employee in front of other employees, assigning negative and exaggerated criticism that causes embarrassment and cursing, demanding unattainable goals, acting with excessive rigor and assigning embarrassing nicknames are examples of behavior attributed to bullying.
Psychological aggression
Psychological harassment is emotional violence. When in the workplace, abusive conduct in the form of words and attitudes, the threat of losing one's job for not fulfilling tasks and repeated practices against one's dignity or dignity in the workplace, psychological harassment is a form of emotional violence. integrity characterize this harassment.
It can be perpetrated by co-workers at the same hierarchical level or by superiors, and the damage caused is associated with medium to long-term psychological disorders. The victim's self-esteem and performance are compromised.
Sexual harassment
It refers to constraining someone in order to obtain a sexual advantage or favor. If there is hierarchical superiority or economic dependence of the person who practices harassmentThe intentional practice is a crime under article 216A of the penal code.
Indecent acts or invitations occur verbally, non-verbally and physically in the workplace, disturbing and embarrassing others, creating an intimidating, destabilizing environment and affecting their dignity.
Virtual harassment
Also called cyberbullyingThe practice takes place with the use of information and communication technologies through hostile and repetitive behavior, in a deliberate way.
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It is common for the practice to involve an individual or a group with the aim of harming the other. With the presence of technology in most workplaces, this type of harassment is gaining ground. Attention and effective preventive measures are needed.
Behaviour that is characterized as harassment has a negative impact on the company and results in inconvenience and damage that is difficult to repair, after all, an organization's credibility is often built up over years of work. What's more, employees who work in a healthy environment produce more and work better.
The ideal is to adopt strategic measures and attitudes in order to preventing all types of harassmentThis can be done by qualified companies or professionals.
Want to know more about the consequences of harassment? Read our article on harassment and suicide.
