Social prevention of mobbing in the workplace

The article is devoted to the theoretical study of the problem of social prevention of mobbing as psychological violence in the workplace. It is determined that the issue is relevant due to the spread of the phenomenon of mobbing and its negative impact on the mental health and work activity of the employees. It is found that in the international practice, the main approaches to the prevention of mobbing are consolidated at the legislative level. Social prevention is defined as a complex of activities aimed at preventing, detecting and eliminating violence. The paper substantiates the feasibility of primary and secondary prevention of mobbing in the workplace. It is noted that primary prevention is aimed at preventing the incidence of mobbing and consists mainly of raising the level of awareness of the employees about the causes, forms, features and consequences of mobbing, as well as possible ways of providing the assistance. The methods used in primary social prevention of mobbing in the workplace are defined as follows: awareness raising and educational activities; programs and courses within the framework of professional development; corporate holidays; team-building activities; monitoring of information resources of the organization; various kinds of social advertising, etc. The author notes that secondary prevention is aimed at preventing the escalation of an existing case of mobbing, minimizing the risk of its recurrence, and providing social and psychological assistance to victims. It is established that the methods of secondary prevention of mobbing include the following: the functioning of special commissions to review mobbing cases; registration of mobbing cases, statistics and monitoring of conflict relations in the team; psychological support for victims of mobbing; consultations and diagnostic interviews; social and psychological training, etc. It is concluded that social prevention of mobbing should comply with the principles of consistency and continuity. Keywords: mobbing, psychological violence, social prevention, primary prevention, secondary prevention, methods of prevention, workplace.