Power harassment

Power harassment (lit. "power harassment") is a form of abuse of power and bullying mainly in companies and at universities . A superior uses a power imbalance to humiliate a subordinate personally, for example through insults, freaking out, exposing colleagues, being forced to participate in non-business events, or demanding activities outside of the actual area of ​​responsibility for which the employee is clearly overqualified.

The term was in 2002 by Yasuko Okada introduced to the observed by their behavior from sexual harassment (Engl. Sexual harassment ) delineate where the balance of power is sexualized sided.

Instead of power harassment , the Japanese also use gairaigo pawā hara .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yasuko Okada: Shokuba de shinkoku-ka suru 'pawā harasumento'. In: Tokyo Jinken , vol. 15 (2002). On-line. Automated translation into German
2. ↑ Japan's uprising against bullying from above . Ö1 Journal Panorama, March 30, 2020. Design: Martin Fritz. On-line.