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This essay proposes an innovative conceptual framework for workplace bullying (mobbing) that goes beyond the classic focus on individual harm. Following an episode of harassment—and especially when the institutional response is ambiguous, slow, or defensive—what the author calls extended psychosocial risk emerges: a collective climate of hypervigilance, self-censorship, moral fear, and narrative control that affects not only the victim, but the entire team and the organization.
It examines how emotional contagion, alignment with power, and the rewriting of events through cognitive dissonance unfold, alongside organizational silence and prosodic and pragmatic microaggressions that leave no written trace. It also explores procedural revictimization, the critical phase of medical leave and return to work, and talent drain as a delayed signal of systemic deterioration.
The text integrates established theoretical frameworks (emotional contagion, social identity, procedural justice, psychological safety) with the author’s own Universal Coherence (UC) model and the 16 Simultaneous Structural Functions S(i), offering an integrative reading of the phenomenon. It includes practical implications for prevention and leadership, minimum standards for procedural fairness in internal complaints, a legal appendix specific to Spain (Article 50 of the Workers’ Statute), and an exploratory sequential mixed-method empirical design with testable hypotheses and a complete preliminary questionnaire.
Born from a first-person lived experience, this preprint aims to become a useful tool for researchers, psychosocial risk prevention professionals, middle managers, union representatives, and victims who need clear and rigorous language to understand and transform these processes.
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Title Psychosocial Evolution Following Workplace Bullying. Beyond the Victim: Social Contagion, Narrative Control, and Organizational Climate
This essay proposes an innovative conceptual framework for workplace bullying (mobbing) that goes beyond the classic focus on individual harm. Following an episode of harassment—and especially when the institutional response is ambiguous, slow, or defensive—what the author calls extended psychosocial risk emerges: a collective climate of hypervigilance, self-censorship, moral fear, and narrative control that affects not only the victim, but the entire team and the organization.
It examines how emotional contagion, alignment with power, and the rewriting of events through cognitive dissonance unfold, alongside organizational silence and prosodic and pragmatic microaggressions that leave no written trace. It also explores procedural revictimization, the critical phase of medical leave and return to work, and talent drain as a delayed signal of systemic deterioration.
The text integrates established theoretical frameworks (emotional contagion, social identity, procedural justice, psychological safety) with the author’s own Universal Coherence (UC) model and the 16 Simultaneous Structural Functions S(i), offering an integrative reading of the phenomenon. It includes practical implications for prevention and leadership, minimum standards for procedural fairness in internal complaints, a legal appendix specific to Spain (Article 50 of the Workers’ Statute), and an exploratory sequential mixed-method empirical design with testable hypotheses and a complete preliminary questionnaire.
Born from a first-person lived experience, this preprint aims to become a useful tool for researchers, psychosocial risk prevention professionals, middle managers, union representatives, and victims who need clear and rigorous language to understand and transform these processes.
Work type Narrative, Essay
Tags workplace harassment, cognitive dissonance, psychosocial risks, mobbing, revictimization, organizational climate, procedural justice., organizational culture, emotional contagion, narrative control, psychological safety, organizational silence
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Entry date Mar 1, 2026, 8:17 PM UTC
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Author. Holder Andrés Calvo Espinosa. Date Mar 1, 2026.
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