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All of these forms of workplace harassment target various groups, including women, men, racial minorities, LGBT people, people with disabilities and immigrants. In essence, workplace harassment requires a pluralistic understanding, because it cannot be delineated in one coherent and concrete definition. [8]
Ergophobia (also referred to as ergasiophobia or ponophobia) is described as an extreme and debilitating fear associated with work (manual labor, non-manual labor, etc.), a fear of finding or losing employment, or fear of specific tasks in the workplace. The term ergophobia comes from the Greek "ergon" (work) and "phobos" (fear).
A position of trust is any position that grants a person authority over another person or people, [1] or valuable things, [2] and carries a legal and ethical obligation to appropriately exercise that authority. [3] The term may be used a more restricted sense as defined by an organization or by legislation.
A low-trust society is defined as one in which interpersonal trust is relatively low, and shared ethical values are lacking. [1] Conversely, a high-trust society is one where interpersonal trust is relatively high, and where ethical values are strongly shared.
Trust is the belief that another person will do what is expected. It brings with it a willingness for one party (the trustor) to become vulnerable to another party (the trustee), on the presumption that the trustee will act in ways that benefit the trustor.
Trust has focal meaning for the success of every transaction. It stimulates the human activities. In countries with trust culture there is higher social well-being and economic growth. [4] In distrust culture those who trust in others are believed to be naive and simple-minded and they are the victims of unfair transactions.
Group cohesiveness, also called group cohesion, social harmony or social cohesion, is the degree or strength of bonds linking members of a social group to one another and to the group as a whole. [1]
Organizational conflict, or workplace conflict, is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests between people working together. Conflict takes many forms in organizations. There is the inevitable clash between formal authority and power and those individuals and groups affected.