Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
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Abstract

Moral Harassment at Work (MHW) is a threat and violence to the human being dignity, and a form of rights violation. Humiliation, embarrassment, ridicule, isolation and psychological torture have revealed the degradation of the working environment. Victims have their physical and mental health impaired, causing disability and moral, psychological and physical damage as well as loss of productivity and high costs to government/security, society and to the workers themselves. This article presents the evidences of moral harassment in the public service of the State of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the consequent inability to work. Psychologists and Social Workers of GEPEM collaborated with the data collection through the application of a research script, created for this purpose, in 100 health records of effective public workers in activity, aged between 18 and 70 years, which submitted themselves to diagnose and subsequent clearance for Health Care (HC) in the 2008-2010 period. For inclusion of these records, we considered the public servant in HC with evidence of psychological violence at work practiced by managers, peers, subordinates, or users of the public service. We treated the data from this study using descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis, from the research script, covering categories such as violence, work, illness and disability. The results showed evidence of MHW and the deterioration of labor relations, resulting in suffering, occupational illness, disability, organizational dysfunction, derivations on social security benefits, as well as human and financial costs.

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