Trabalho Masculino, Trabalho Feminino: Representações Sociais e Assédio Moral.

Abstract

The study presented here had the objective to bring evidences of the existence of the bullying at work, to investigate the relation between bullying at work and discrimination of gender, and to try to contribute a deeper knowledge about this phenomenon. The bullying at work is a kind of organizational behavior produced in different organizational cultures and it is constituted of abusive and repeated attitudes against the physical and psychological dignity of a person at work. The bullying at work can be motivated, in many cases, by sexual dimension and deeplier the dimension of relationship of gender. The importance of studying this phenomenon is that the attitudes of sexual harassment does not have as a goal just to expel the individual of his place of work, but a deeper attack against the worker, attack against his capacity of working and his identity as a worker. I was made two studies to study the bullying at work where the participants imagined that they had passed by humiliating, constraining situations or had suffered persecution by his colleagues or superiors. The Study I involved 205 academic students divided in 69% women and 34,6% men. The results indicate that the interviewers noted the moral blockade organized in four factors: one with the attitude with intension to depreciate the person in front of his colleagues; the second composed by attitudes of deliberate deterioration of the conditions of work; the third about attacks against dignity; and, finally, the attitudes of isolation and refuse to communicate. A instrument of the study of social representation of female work and male work was also pointed to a vision of female work as discriminated. A second study was made with 80 participants (56,3% women), workers, not students that were trying to return to work. With the results obtained, we can suppose that exists a strong relation between bullying at work and relationship of gender at work.