Community mobbing is a form of group bullying. Community mobbing is characterized by a coordinated “ganging up” by a group with several ring leaders, and many more followers that target a person for generalized harassment within their neighborhood or city. It is distinct from workplace mobbing, and academic or school place mobbing because it extends into the larger community in which the target lives. The mobbing activities are conducted by neighbors, community watch groups, or, even snitches when there is police involvement.
When co-workers collectively gang up on another co-worker. Includes things like gossip, criticism, false reporting to management, shunning, gratuitous lack of co-operation, generally nasty behaviour. Places huge stress on the target, resulting in illness or quitting.
Workplace Mobbing is common in hierarchical work environments. One person is targeted, the rest are complicit. Throwback to teenage girl type behaviour.
Unlike normal social stressors, workplace bullying (mobbing) is a long lasting (at least 6 months), escalated conflict with frequent harassing actions (at least every week), systematically aimed at a target person and carried out by colleagues, supervisors or subordinates