What Is The Lack Of Effective Occupation And What Can Be Done About It?
Harassment situations at work can be a changing experience and take very varied forms; It is not always reflected in what we can easily identify as physical or verbal violence. For example, the lack of effective employment is a form of subtle mobbing that serves to damage the worker’s quality of life and wear down their psychological health while forcing them to adopt a professional role that is almost null or does not fit the position. of work that you have previously accepted, for not considering your abilities, your interests and/or the resources to which you have access.
To solve these problems, it is necessary to resort to the services of a psychologist with experience and training in the field of forensic psychology, who can use a series of strategies to demonstrate that this type of harmful behavior exists in the work environment and that the client is victim of them (in case this situation has actually taken place).
In order to better clarify these concepts, in today’s article We will define what is both mobbing in general and the lack of effective occupation and how forensic psychology can help overcome these types of problems.
Effective employment is a fundamental right included in the Workers’ Statute in 2015 and consists of each employee must be assigned work tasks and responsibilities assigned to their role, level of preparation and the conditions established in their employment contract.
The violation of this right of the worker is known as lack of effective occupation and occurs when the employer entrusts the employee with tasks that do not fit their professional profile or capabilities or fails to provide the material resources necessary to achieve the entrusted work.
In other words, we can define the lack of effective employment as a betrayal of the terms established in the employment contract where the employer consciously or unconsciously neglects his obligations towards the employee so that the latter can carry out his work normally.
The lack of effective employment is one of the most common phenomena of discord between workers and employees in the workplace, both in companies and in any type of organization, and currently it is also one of the most frequently received queries by psychology professionals. work, forensic or organizational.
Differences between mobbing, labor conflict and lack of effective employment
In the field of work and organizational psychology, any aspect that may affect the labor relations and emotional well-being of each worker is studied in detail, regardless of their position. Labor conflict, mobbing and lack of effective employment are central concepts in this discipline
1. Mobbing
Mobbing or workplace harassment is one of the phenomena that is most discussed in this discipline; However, there are many forms of harassment that affect human relationships at work, especially subordinates, such as the lack of effective employment.
Mobbing or workplace harassment is a form of aggression, usually psychological, that takes place in the work environment and in which a person, generally a subordinate, is the victim of one or more aggressors, who may be their superiors or colleagues in the same position. The attacks usually consist of teasing, manipulation of the victim’s work materials, spreading harmful rumors about the victim, etc.
In cases of mobbing, the aggressor usually has the objective of cornering, separating or excluding the victim from the rest of the members of the organization; Harassment behaviors are usually unidirectional, are frequent and repeated over time, and other members of the organization may also occasionally participate in them.
The motivations for mobbing are usually varied, although the most common objectives are retaliation against a worker who does not submit, instilling fear so that he works more, forcing him to leave to avoid paying his compensation or simply the animosity felt towards him. .
2. Labor conflict
The labor conflict, on the contrary, is not motivated by an intention to separate the victim from the rest and other co-workers normally do not collaborate.
Furthermore, in labor conflicts there is usually no purpose or motivation on the part of the aggressor, and both the victim and the aggressor may have common objectives. In addition to that, bullying behaviors are not frequent or prolonged over time and there is usually a bidirectional relationship. In this case It is not appropriate to speak of victim and aggressor, and there is no reason for illegality to have occurred
3. Lack of effective occupation
The main objective of the lack of effective employment is to devalue, devalue or exposing a subordinate’s work as of little value
Both this type of harassment and mobbing in general can be treated by a qualified professional in the field of forensic psychology.
How does forensic psychology deal with cases of lack of effective occupation?
Forensic psychology professionals in the field of labor relations are able to help demonstrate cases of lack of effective employment with various tools and techniques based on scientific evidence.
In the field of forensic psychology expert evidence is used to demonstrate each of the crimes committed in the work environment ; Through the so-called “forensic psychological report”, an essential test in judicial processes of this type, the most relevant findings from the point of view of Psychology are reported, such as the emotional and behavioral consequences that bullying has had. on the victim, or the hostile motivations of the person who has given rise to the lack of effective occupation.
To have information with which to prepare the expert psychological report, forensic psychologists use various tests: psychopathological evaluation tests, expert analysis of WhatsApp conversations or other messaging systems, interviews, analysis of audiovisual material, etc.
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