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Our clients come first. We serve our clients on a personalized basis, adapting solutions tailed to their particular needs. Every case, either individual or at company or organization level, is based on a confidentiality agreement signed by both parties. The common aim is to create the suitable conditions to handle instances of violence and harassment so that socially viable conditions may once again apply.
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Definition of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work according to ILO’s 190 Convention
The term “violence and harassment” in the world of work refers to a range of unacceptable behaviours and practices, or threats thereof, whether a single occurrence or repeated, that aim at, result in, or are likely to result in physical, psychological, sexual or economic harm, and includes gender-based violence and harassment
The term “gender-based violence and harassment” means violence and harassment directed at persons because of their sex or gender, or affecting persons of a particular sex or gender disproportionately, and includes sexual harassment.
Different Types of Violence & Harassment
- Discrimination-based violence and harassment is any action or behaviour directed at persons because of their particular personal attributes, such as race, national origin, disability, sex or gender, age or health status, martial status, economical status
- Sexual violence and harassment
- sexual assault, rape, indecent exposure, stalking or obscene communication
- Downgrading and debasing by making him/her feeling less important /Gaslighting
- Shunning, excluding, marginalizing subordinate or co-worker by excluding or stopping him/her from working with people or taking part in work-related activities
- Giving impossible goals and deadlines or pointless tasks that have nothing to do with the job
- Mind Triggering.
- Yelling, humiliating, threatening, excluding and causing psychological damage, insulting, using hurtful remarks, offensive language, or any form of verbal abuse
- WISHPERING – Ticketing
- Deliberately changing work hours or schedules to inconvenience particular workers
- Giving workers to follow unrealistic or unethical mandates and threatened with punishment if disobey
- Pushing, grabbing, shoving, tripping, slapping, biting, scratching, hitting, kicking, or throwing an object.
- Giving tasks without giving them the right information’s and tools to accomplish the project
- Making co workers to turn against him/her
- micro-management and over-attribution of mistakes based on negative stereotypes about his/hers competency and productivity
- Use of phycological methods of harassment
- online (through informational and communication technologies such as electronic means or social media
- If these sounds familiar to you , have been bullied in your workplace
Anything in the design or management of work that increases the risk of work-related stress can be understood as a psychosocial hazard.
While stress itself does not constitute a physical or psychological injury, a stress response includes the physical, mental and emotional reactions that occur when a worker perceives that the demands of work exceed their ability or resources to cope. If prolonged and/or severe, work-related stress can cause both psychological and physical injuries. While pressure is normal in many workplaces, stress may result when ‘pressure becomes excessive or otherwise unmanageable’.
Common psychosocial Hazards:
Job Demands: Unmanageable workloads, unreasonable deadlines, or high-pressure environments.
Low Job Control: Employees having little say over how their work is done.
Poor Support: Lack of adequate support from managers, colleagues, or the organization as a whole.
Role Ambiguity: Unclear job roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
Poor Change Management: Poorly communicated or managed organizational changes.
Inadequate Recognition: A lack of appreciation for performance and effort.
Poor Organizational Justice: Inconsistent or unfair policies and decision-making.
Traumatic Events: Exposure to a traumatic event or material in the course of work.
Remote or Isolated Work: Feelings of loneliness or disconnection due to work arrangements.
Workplace Conflict: Bullying, harassment (including sexual and gender-based), and poor workplace relationships.
Psychosocial hazards may interact and combine