Moral harassment in higher education institutions: a study of the organizational conditions that favor its occurrence
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This study investigates the organizational conditions that promote the occurrence of moral harassment in the workplace, from the perspective of professors working on private courses in Business Administration Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the city of São Paulo. It was performed a qualitative research based on data from interviews and document analysis, which were submitted to content analysis. The results showed that moral harassment is motivated both by personal issues, as by organizational issues, and its elements responsible for triggering it is the placement of private HEIs in the competitive landscape in which they operate and the weakness or absence of standards and processes concerning the prevention and treatment of cases of moral harassment.
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