Usual profile of the victim
The victims, therefore, tend to be people with high ethics, honesty and rectitude, as well as a high sense of justice. People with some characteristic that distinguishes them, such as those already mentioned (young people, women, minorities...). Highly trained people. Popular people, born leaders. People with a high empathic capacity, sensitivity or understanding of the suffering of others. People with highly satisfactory personal or family situations. People in highly vulnerable situations, etc.[10].
Stalker profile
The ultimate goal of the stalker is the "psychological murder" of the victim, and the main motive is to cover up one's own mediocrity, all due to the fear and insecurity that stalkers experience towards their own professional careers. De este modo se puede desviar la atención o desvirtuar las situaciones de riesgo para ellos, haciendo de las víctimas verdaderos chivos expiatorios de las organizaciones. The mere presence of the victim in the workplace triggers, due to its differential characteristics, a series of unconscious reactions, caused by the previous psychological problems that the harassers present. On other occasions, the fear comes from the threat posed to them by the victim's knowledge of irregular, illegal or fraudulent situations.
The toxic agents of harassment are, in most cases, superiors or bosses, often supported by "henchmen" or "hitmen." There are also many harassers among the victim's own colleagues, and it is estimated that, in 4% of cases, workplace harassment is ascending, that is, from the subordinate to the superior.
The actions of harassers in harassment groups or gangs are common, and the acts of harassment tend to be, as has been seen, shouting, insults, constant reprimands, humiliation, false accusations, threats, obstacles, "jokes", nicknames... All of which can lead to the authentic psychological lynching of the victim, which if practiced among all workers is very difficult to prove, so the "psychological murder" will have been perfect.[11].
Exposure to these real and observable bullying behaviors is not something casual but fully causal or intentional since the harasser attempts, with greater or lesser awareness of it, harm or harm to the person who happens to be the target of these attacks, especially the intimidation and breakdown of their psychological resistance in the medium term. The objective of any process of psychological harassment at work is to intimidate, reduce, flatten, intimidate, intimidate and emotionally and intellectually consume the victim, with a view to nullifying, subduing or eliminating them from the organization, which is the means through which the harasser channels and satisfies a series of psychopathic impulses and tendencies.
It is not uncommon to find (although it is not always the case) that this insatiable need to attack, control and destroy that bullies usually present, comes from a series of psychopathological tendencies or morbid or premorbid personalities. These psychopathies correspond to aberrant, Machiavellian, narcissistic or paranoid self-promoters, who take advantage of the situation offered by the more or less turbulent or deregulated environments of modern organizations to prey on their victims.
However, aggressors commonly abuse and take advantage of their position of formal hierarchical power, but they also draw on their informal power (the "powers that be") within the organization to remedy their frustrations through psychological violence on others, compensate for their "Complex (psychology)") or give vent to their more aggressive and antisocial tendencies.
Professions most affected
The most frequently affected professionals are civil servants and contracted labor personnel from public administrations (central, regional or local), research professors from public and private universities, primary, secondary or university education workers, computer scientists, auditors, health workers, daycare and nursery school caregivers, hospitality and tourism staff, staff from banks and financial institutions, merchant marine officers, as well as members of so-called ideological organizations (charitable or religious institutions and organizations, political parties, unions), workers. of the gastronomic sector. In general, the entire services sector is affected to a greater extent.[7].
According to the Platform against Corruption and Harassment in the Spanish Public University"), workplace harassment in this area is very common. Endogamy, harassment and despotism are not frequent in the Spanish university: they are their usual modus vivirdi, says Guillem Bou"), founding member of this platform.[12].
The France Télécom company is being investigated for the numerous suicides recently recorded among its workers. The company, which wanted to reduce its workforce but could not fire many workers because they were civil servants, carried out a campaign to demotivate them to get them to voluntarily resign from their jobs. It is being investigated whether the stress and general depression that was generated was so great that forty-six of the affected workers committed suicide and another fifteen attempted it.[13][14].