Abstract

BARRETO, Margarida  and  HELOANI, Roberto. Institutional violence: an invisible risk, but real and undeniable. Salud de los Trabajadores [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.1, pp.68-86. ISSN 1315-0138.

The authors reflect broadly on workplace harassment, ongoing research in different countries, and comment on progress on research in this area in Latin America and Brazil. They point out the implications of workplace harassment on workers’ health, upt to and including suicide. In the end, the authors propose the need for preventive actions. The author of this article, by considering the method as “the very soul of the real”, thereby chosing a qualitative approach from the historical-dialectic perspective, which allows an understanding of correlations between workplace harassment and new ways of organizing and managing today’s workplace, putting it in terms of psychosocial risk factors. Hence, this is less visible, which in turn leads to violence in the workplace - perpetrated against workers and against employee relations - reflecting an organizational issue rather than due to individual personality or psychological problems, even though the appearance may be otherwise.

Keywords : Occupational Health; Violence; Stalking; Work; Organizational Culture.