Risk groups at workplace in terms of mobbing: A research on employees in audit firms

Mobbing which has become one of the most important problem of today's working life has been subject of many researches in our country as well as worldwide. No study has been found in the audit sector related to mobbing, whose prevalence and forms have been examined in different sectors. In this study, mobbing is defined and the recent development of this phenomenon is examined. Furthermore, mobbing and other definions with close meanings to mobbing are compared to each other and the points which differentiate them from mobbing phenomenon are expressed. Reasons, stages, actors and consequences of mobbing are revealed by explaining the process of mobbing. In the second part of the study, the prevalence and structure of mobbing in the world and in our country are examined and micro-risk groups at the workplace are discussed. In the last part of the study, the general structures of the audit firms are mentioned and risk groups were tried to be identified in terms of mobbing at audit firms in İstanbul.