Mobbing: psychological impact on university professors, repercussions on the sense of belonging and working permanency

Abstract

This chapter works with mobbing concept and its psychological impact on the sense of belonging a job and keeping it. This research is carried out from a holistic perspective corroborating that the sense of belonging is affected by mobbing in Higher Education Institutions in a significant manner. The theoretical approach makes evident the need for studying it from a psychological point of view and to analyze it from the perspective of rational models, which leads to introduce the term “en-trepreneurialization” of universities. It was used a methodology that it is based on data construction to achieve it, some own research-tools were designed, starting with quantitative and qualitative techniques (surveys and interviews) applied to teaching staff of a public university. The obtained results and conclusions allowed us to notice the presence, although not significant, of mobbing; its psychological effects and repercussions in the job belonging sense and job keeping.