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Workplace Mobbing: A Necessity of Our Time

İşyeri Mobbingi Çağın Gereği mi?

Metin Meriç(ANKARA HACI BAYRAM VELİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0001-9200-2633
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2026-09-25
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In other words, downward workplace mobbing can be understood as a structural distortion of contemporary organizational transformations, arising from the failure to fully realize the ethical potential embedded in the very concepts -such as excellence, adventure, creativity, and responsibility- that are invoked to justify these transformations.

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Objective & Hypothesis:This article offers a speculative elaboration on downward workplace mobbing, defined as the intentional and repetitive infliction of physical or psychological harm by superiors upon subordinates within an organization.
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Key Findings & Data:Existing studies demonstrate that workplace mobbing is not a marginal phenomenon in contemporary organizations and that downward mobbing constitutes its most prevalent form.
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Conclusion & Impact:In other words, downward workplace mobbing can be understood as a structural distortion of contemporary organizational transformations, arising from the failure to fully realize the ethical potential embedded in the very concepts -such as excellence, adventure, creativity, and responsibility- that are invoked to justify these transformations.
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⚙️Variables:Mobbing · zorbalık · meşruiyet

Abstract

This article offers a speculative elaboration on downward workplace mobbing, defined as the intentional and repetitive infliction of physical or psychological harm by superiors upon subordinates within an organization. Existing studies demonstrate that workplace mobbing is not a marginal phenomenon in contemporary organizations and that downward mobbing constitutes its most prevalent form. Moreover, it is observed that the causes of downward workplace mobbing and the conditions that facilitate it -frequently emphasized in the literatüre- are closely aligned with current organizational transformations occurring within the context of globalization. On the other hand, some scholars argue that mobbing does not stem directly from organizational transformations themselves, but rather from deficiencies in leadership and management that emerge during such transformations. Drawing on Foucault’s power-knowledge-legitimacy triad, the authors provide an explanation of downward workplace mobbing that extends beyond organizational change perse. More specifically, they suggest that organizational transformations give rise to new power knowledge configurations, which in turn redefine the boundaries of legitimacy. Within this framework, downward workplace mobbing may be interpreted as the emergence of power operating outside the boundaries delineated by the prevailing structure of legitimacy. In other words, downward workplace mobbing can be understood as a structural distortion of contemporary organizational transformations, arising from the failure to fully realize the ethical potential embedded in the very concepts -such as excellence, adventure, creativity, and responsibility- that are invoked to justify these transformations.

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Bu makale, bir örgüt içinde üstlerin astlara yönelik olarak fiziksel ya da psikolojik zararı kasıtlı ve tekrarlayan biçimde uygulaması anlamına gelen aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbingine ilişkin spekülatif bir açımlama sunmaktadır. Çalışmalar, işyeri mobbinginin günümüz örgütlerinde marjinal bir olgu olmadığını ve aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbinginin en yaygın şekli olduğunu ortaya koyduğu görülmektedir. Ayrıca, birçok araştırmada dile getirilen aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbinginin nedenleri ve bunu kolaylaştıran koşulların, küreselleşme bağlamında gerçekleşen güncel örgütsel dönüşümlerle de uyum sağladığı görülmektedir. Diğer taraftan mobbingin örgütsel dönüşümlerden değil; bu dönüşümlerde görülen liderlik ve yönetim yetersizliğinden kaynaklandığı ifade edilmektedir. Foucault’nun güç–bilgi–meşruiyet üçlüsünden yararlanan yazarlar, aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbingine, örgütsel değişimlerin ötesine geçen bir açıklama getirmektedir. Daha açık ifade etmek gerekirse, örgütsel değişimler, yeni güç/bilgi bağının ortaya çıkması ve bunun da yeni meşruiyet sınırlarının göz önüne alınmasıyla gerçekleşebileceği belirtilmektedir. Aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbingi, meşruiyet yapısı içinde çizilen sınırların dışında kalan gücün ortaya çıkması olarak görülebilir. Başka bir deyişle, aşağı yönlü işyeri mobbingi, çağdaş örgütsel dönüşümlerin yapısal bozulması olup; bu dönüşümleri ortaya koyan mükemmeliyet, macera, yaratıcılık ve sorumluluk gibi ifadelerin tüm etik potansiyelinin hayata geçirilememesinden kaynaklandığı ifade edilebilir.

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Meriç, M. (2026). Workplace Mobbing: A Necessity of Our Time. MEYAD Akademi, Sayı: 2. https://doi.org/10.59007/meyadakademi.1852083

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