PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF WORKPLACE BULLYING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ITALY AND FRANCE.

The aim of this work is to analyse the phenomenon of workplace bullying in two countries, Italy and France, trying to understand the differences among them. The words used to refer are respectively “mobbing” in Italy and “harcèlement moral” in France. The research analyse the phenomenon’s characteristics through the opinion of an expert sample, belonging to different “areas” linked to their cultural background. They were selected by the researchers for their expertise and experience on this topic. The instrument used was a semi-structured interview conducted in vivo by the researcher. The data resulting were processed as follow: a qualitative analysis was conducted through the production of short synthesis for each interview; a quantitative analysis was conducted through the attempt to standardize the qualitative answers in percentage data. The results shows the existence of different phenomenon’s characteristics in the two countries.