MOBBING IN PROFESSIONAL ENVIRONMENT

The article is devoted to the analysis of the causes, manifestations and consequences of mobbing as a form of psychological violence in professional environment. Due to the large amount of literature and media covering this topic in Europe, the problem of workplace mobbing has begun to be discussed as well, but the study of this problem is not receiving enough attention, so victims of mobbing have to rely more on themselves. Nowadays, scientific works on this problem are of a general nature, the theoretical and methodological foundations of this phenomenon, its causes and consequences are not well researched in Ukraine. The article analyzes the causes, manifestations and consequences of mobbing as a form of psychological violence in the workplace, highlights its main characteristics, highlights the essential signs of mobbing. Logical and semantic; method of generalization; structural and functional method were used to study of this problem. The individual-psychological features of mobbing targets andmobsters, the connection between mobbing at work and personality disorder have been singled out. It has been stated that in Ukraine it is necessary to study and use the experience of European countries on counteracting mobbing at work in order to improve working conditions, create a comfortable psychological atmosphere, prevention of professional burnout and protection of the professional dignity of the employee.