What is the lack of effective employment and what can be done about it?

Bullying at work can be a changing experience and take many different forms; it does not always translate into what we can easily identify as physical or verbal violence. For example, the lack of effective employment is a form of subtle mobbing that serves to damage the worker's quality of life and wear down his psychological health while forcing him to adopting a professional role that is almost non-existent or that does not fit the job position that you have previously accepted, because you do not consider your skills, your interests and/or the resources you have access.

To solve these problems, it is necessary to go to the services of a psychologist with experience and training in the field of forensic psychology, who can a series of Strategies to demonstrate that such harmful conduct exists in the work environment and that the client is a victim of it (if such conduct has actually taken place). situation).

In order to better clarify these concepts, in today's article We will define what is both mobbing in general and the lack of effective occupation

, and how forensic psychology can help overcome these types of problems.

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What is the lack of effective occupation?

Effective employment is a fundamental right included in the Workers' Statute in 2015 and consists in the fact that each employee must have assigned tasks and job responsibilities assigned to his role, level of preparation and the conditions established in his employment contract job.

The violation of this right of the worker is known as lack of effective employment., and occurs when the employer entrusts the employee with tasks that do not conform to his professional profile or his capacities or fails to provide the necessary material resources to carry out the work entrusted.

In other words, we can define the lack of effective employment as a betrayal of the terms established in the employment contract, where the employer consciously or unconsciously neglects his obligations towards the employee so that the latter can carry out his work normally.

The lack of effective employment is one of the most common phenomena of discord between workers and employees in the workplace, both in companies and anywhere. type of organization and currently it is also one of the queries most received by professionals in occupational psychology, forensics or organizations.

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Differences between mobbing, labor conflict and lack of effective employment

In the field of work psychology and organizations, any aspect that may affect labor relations and the emotional well-being of each worker, whatever their post. Labor conflict, mobbing and the lack of effective employment are central concepts in this discipline.

1. Mobbing

Mobbing or workplace harassment is one of the phenomena that is most dealt with in this discipline; However, there are many forms of harassment that affect human relations at work, especially subordinates, such as the lack of effective employment.

Mobbing or workplace harassment is a form of aggression, usually psychological, that takes place in the work environment and in which a person, generally a subordinate, is the victim of one or several aggressors, who may be his superiors or colleagues in the same position. The attacks usually consist of mocking, manipulation of the victim's work material, spreading harmful rumors about the victim, etc.

In cases of mobbing, the aggressor usually has the objective of cornering, separating or excluding the victim from the rest of the members of the organization; Harassment behaviors are usually unidirectional, are frequent and repeated over time, and other members of the organization may also occasionally participate in them.

The motivations for mobbing tend to be varied, although the most common objectives are reprisals for a worker who does not submit, instilling fear so that he works more, forcing him to leave to avoid paying his compensation or simply the animosity that he feels to him.

2. Job issue

The labor dispute, on the other hand, is not motivated by an intention to separate the victim from the rest, and usually other co-workers do not collaborate.

Furthermore, in labor conflicts there is usually no purpose or motivation on the part of the aggressor, and both the victim and the aggressor may have common goals. In addition to that, harassing behaviors are not frequent or prolonged in time and there is usually a two-way relationship. In this case It is not appropriate to speak of victim and aggressor, and there does not have to be an illegality.

3. Lack of effective occupation

The lack of effective employment has as its main objective to devalue, devalue or expose the work of a subordinate as worthless.

Both this type of harassment and mobbing in general can be treated by a qualified professional belonging to the field of forensic psychology.

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How does forensic psychology deal with cases of lack of effective occupation?

Professionals in forensic psychology in the field of labor relations are able to help demonstrate cases of lack of effective occupancy with various evidence-based tools and techniques scientific.

In the field of forensic psychology expert evidence is used to demonstrate each of the crimes committed in the workplace; Through the so-called "forensic psychological report", an essential test in judicial processes of this type, the most relevant findings are reported from the point of view of the Psychology, such as the emotional and behavioral consequences that bullying has had on the victim, or the hostile motivations of the person who has led to the lack of employment effective.

To have information with which to prepare the expert psychological report, forensic psychologists use various tests: psychopathological evaluation, expert analysis of whatsapp conversations or other messaging systems, interviews, analysis of material audiovisual etc.

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