Mobbing

Mobbing is a special type of consensus bullying behavior. It is about an imbalance of social, physical or other power involving a group or a person.

Mobbing is like a "virus" or a "cancer" that spreads via gossip, rumour and innuendo. Mobbing is developed or pushed by a leader who persuades others into a systematic pattern of "mob-like" behaviour toward the target.^[1]

History

Some European languages have adopted "mob" as a loanword to describe special kinds of bullying.^[1]

Checklists

A checklist for identify mobbing behaviour includes^[2]

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Group focus on a critical incident that "shows what kind of person the "target" really is"^[2]
Shared belief that the target needs "to be taught a lesson"^[2]
Defamation words and reasoning about the target^[2]
Shared negative ideas about the target^[2]
Loss of diversity of argument, so that it becomes dangerous to defend the target^[2]
Addition of the target’s real or imagined mistakes^[2]

References

Newspaper headlines about bullying

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shallcross, Linda et al. (2008). "Workplace Mobbing: Expulsion, Exclusion, and Transformation," Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine 2008; retrieved 2013-2-20.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Westhues, Kenneth. Checklist of Mobbing Indicators at arts.uwaterloo.ca Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, 2006; retrieved 2013-2-20.

Other websites

[shallcross-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Shallcross, Linda et al. (2008). "Workplace Mobbing: Expulsion, Exclusion, and Transformation," Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine 2008; retrieved 2013-2-20.

[Westhues-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 Westhues, Kenneth. Checklist of Mobbing Indicators at arts.uwaterloo.ca Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, 2006; retrieved 2013-2-20.

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