Free hand translation by the author.
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Workplace Harassment is an insidious problem that is increasing in organisations. The victim is completely destabilized by the repeated aggressions of his aggressor. Even if he/she has the possibility to complain with the new sections to the Quebec Law, the victim must take serious decisions, before, during and after the harassment, and pursue to manage his/her health, professional and personal life. What can he/she do to help himself? How can he/she stop the harassment? Is it possible to stop it? Are there any communications strategies that he/she can use and could help? These are a few examples for which the author is answering in this book.

For managers, counselors, health and safety officers, supporting agents, family and friends of the victim, this book helps to better understand Workplace Harassment and how the victim can help himself/herself to get out of it.

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Extract of the book

Free hand translation by the author.

…Marc feels disabled, distressed, lost, confused and lonely. He sleeps less and less well. He is surprised to find himself feeling nauseous with the only fact of thinking of his boss, which constantly seems to watch him. Marc has the impression that he is always behind his back to find him at fault. He feels nervous and distressed. Which other comment will his boss make about Marc again?

To present himself at work has become painful. Not only his tasks have changed but he realizes that he feels more incompetent as time passes. He does not know what to do. He is so tired. He does not sleep very well at night. He does not eat very well anymore. Things are going so bad in his team that he has lost appetite. He does not have the same energy as before and in return, certainly that the accounts take more time to be received and to enter! But he does not understand. Not so long ago, everything was going well. He did not have sleep problems, loss of appetite, exacerbated tiredness. His work was perfect. He even received a reward a few years ago for being the best employee of the year! And now that his life is turned around... Help! This needs to stop! Marc feels lost and does not know what to do!

Help please, he feels so bad concerning his performance at work!

Should he leave? Leave the organisation? Good God, the competition is wild in the labour market! How will he survive? Is this the good thing to do? Perhaps is it better to wait and make a complaint? But to whom? Will he be believed? Will he be defended? Will there be justice? Which evidence does he have in hand? Will the other employees help him?
« What can he do meanwhile? How can he help himself? Are there means to defend oneself? To protect himself? Where can he find the assistance? ».

If ever he looses his job, how will he do to find an employment? What will he write on his curriculum vitae now that his tasks have become so ridiculous? Which references will he give? What to do now that his professional career is empty? Now that his self-esteem is at its lowest? What remains of him? Will he find a means of ref-filling it? How to rebuild his confidence with the other employees, other employers? Can one stay in such a workplace and do something, without raising the weapons of battle? Which is the action plan most favourable to such a situation? What are you ready to do? What do you have to do? I will try to give you some tracks of reflection to answer these questions.

Any situation of Workplace Harassment differs from another.

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Victime au travail: L’enfer du harcèlement psychologique au travail, is available online at "Les éditions de l’Homme".

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