Mobbing in organizations: An application at universities

In 1960s it had been started to discuss the presence of a new phenomenon supposed to involve self-interest conflicts at the origin and include the psychological violence behaviors practiced systematically oriented at the individuals cared as competitors at workplace, then this phenomenon is called as mobbing at workplace. It is stated in the studies, made at sectoral basis, that mobbing occurs at most in healthcare, university and nonprofit organizations. Therefore reasons of mobbing in universities, process of exercise, revealing effects/results and the precautions can be taken for this drawbacks constitute the scope of this thesis study.In the first chapter of the thesis, mobbing concept, its historical evolution, formation of mobbing, its types and reasons, its symptoms and finally the degree of mobbing have been considered.In the second chapter; the parties of mobbing classified at three categories as the practitioners, victims and the spectators of mobbing, potential effects of mobbing on those parties and methods to deal with mobbing have been discussed.At the application part of the study, the findings and comments obtained through the survey and face-to-face interviews related to the academic staff working at Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Dokuz Eylül University and Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University have been mentioned.