Collective Moral Harassment

Healthy working relationships are the result of environments in which respect and ethics are part of everyday work conceived as central and organizing people's lives. Although these values are fundamental a number of factors in the contemporary context due to numerous changes have contributed to the increase in violence at work given that this situation has been manifesting itself in institutional relations for a long time. However its forms of manifestation have changed in line with the configuration of economic and socio-political relations as we will see in the chapters. According to the Ministry of Health (2014) bullying is abusive frequent and repetitive conduct that manifests itself through words acts gestures behavior or writing which humiliates embarrasses and disqualifies a person or group affecting their dignity and physical and mental health. They are present in the organization of work in both the public and private spheres and are characterized by actions that take away the worker's capacity for creation and satisfaction causing pain and suffering.