More and more often, apart from matters that are crucial for the safety of the state or the future of large communities, our attention is drawn to the unpleasant experience gained from the local environment, from the nearest human workplace.
In the course of the higher education run to local authorities, the unprecedented organisational and legal turmoil, abuse of authorities, and the moral degrengolade of these communities are revealed. The Warsaw Medical University is most likely under the top fire. In turn, my own observations in 1 of the university departments led me to any generalization. I would not like them to be harmful to environments where the psychopathologies presented do not occur.
In the characteristics of candidates for elected positions, attention is paid primarily to the predispositions and capabilities useful in managing the organisation. However, frequently the request to make affirmative interpersonal relationships is overlooked. Thanks to people with impaired personality, a circumstantial workplace, specified as the university, can become a origin of despair and depression for many.
From the point of view of the rationality of behaviour for many people, reports of mobbing in higher education institutions, or even sexual harassment, seem absolutely incredible, even unbelievable. And yet these pathologies happen. The college community itself can't handle them. They frequently show outside that they are happy communities, almost families, and the university is simply a "second home" of staff and students. But erstwhile he looks inside, under the alleged lining, it turns out that we are dealing with a good hell.
Impaired steering wheel
Universities are not prepared to deal with personality disorders of managers of different units. The request to interact with impaired individuals is explained by the majority of the electorate they have obtained, although for many people it is the origin of the most stressful situations. However, it is hard to prove this personality disorder from the position of mobbing. Neither law nor institutions come to victims with effective help.
The college environments are divided and quarreled among themselves in relation to the assessment of the management by personalities with various intellectual disabilities. Many stand behind the “water” accused of mobbing or another abuses, which is the consequence of many addictions, cognitive blindness and ignorance, conformism and comfort, cowardice and deficiency of character, as well as a nasty tendency to collaborate with anyone on whom participation in the “confiction division” depends.
There utilized to be a alleged media opinion that was a public vote ("vox populi"). Currently, only utmost scandals and scandals give emergence to the reaction of the superior authorities (video: Collegium Humanum). In the face of "smaller" abuses, virtually no remedial action is taken. Talks and pseudo-training have nothing to do with dealing with harmful personality disorders of those with managerial functions.
Personal disorders mention to permanent disturbances in a circumstantial environment, combining 3 crucial occupational and social categories: investigation and teaching staff, administrative staff and students. Not each of the leaders of the academic community has circumstantial intellectual predispositions to skillfully combine the needs and interests of these human teams, decently read their expectations and harmonize their efforts to accomplish a common goal – the highest efficiency in each sphere of activity.
The biggest misfortune of university units is that people who direct them, affected by personality disorders, are almost never aware of their disabilities and do not realize that at any phase of their functioning they become a problem – both for themselves and for the community. Surrounding their "court" of cynical advisors and Suflers, frequently convinced of their uniqueness, it contributes to deepening disorders, among which the most important: paranoid and schizoid, narcissistic and hystrionic, obsessive-compulsive and aggressive.
People affected by them can behave irrationally or even irrationally, that is hurting themselves. Paranoid and schizoid disorders usually come from adolescence and persist during adulthood. They are characterized by suspicion and distrust, dislike of close contacts, deficiency of friends and knowing for another people and their needs.
Narcissism involves utmost self-centeredness, even eccentricism, self-confidence and power ("I can do everything") and inability to accept another’s viewpoint. Unfortunately, specified attitudes have small moral sense. The disregard of alleged good habits is on the agenda. Narcissistic individuals themselves make patterns of behavior, so others should perceive to them and adapt.
The problem of empathy deserves more attention in Polish education. If a kid has not experienced support and compassion from his loved ones, he will never learn to be delicate to the needs of others again. any people don't know that there is one. They most likely were treated indifferently or even cruelly as a child. Histrionia refers to excessive, frequently swinging emotion, drama, as well as anger and incalculability. It is adequate that the boss “gets up with his left ft out of bed” and already the employees have “suck” throughout the day.
However, the worst characteristics of the head of the university unit are obsessive-compulsive and aggressive disorder. Exaggerated scrupulousness ("I work one, and these litters do nothing") and meticulousness ("manual control", dealing with "duperels", meddling in all decision, alternatively of thoughtful control and supervision), obsession with punctuality or pseudo perfectionism, yet nothing unwarranted to cultivate injuries, memory, pettyness, malice, pinchiness and disregard of others. Shouting as a means of persuasion, or even "beating on the mouth", is an incredible leap in the behaviour of people with impaired personality, performing functions clad in solemn togs during an academic celebrity.
Identification problem...
individuals with personality disorders are reduced to the difficulty of delimiting different behaviours from those considered normal. frequently we are faced with confusion, resulting in unpredictable behavior. Even psychotherapists with extended experience are incapable to offer effective prescriptions and instructions on how to diagnose the complexity of the phenomenon and deal with its harmfulness.
A hard problem in diagnosing personality disorders is the conviction of their carriers that they are the only “chosen ones” who are called to play the function entrusted to them. First of all, by the advice of the servants, butlers and kissers, they are not willing to see that they are a origin of problems for many people. Even erstwhile they have acolytes around, praising their good and merit, any opposing voice should be a serious reason for their consideration. Nothing like that. The voices of criticism are evidence of betrayal and actions to the detriment of not the head of the unit, but the full community!
In scientist jargon, this attitude is called egosyntonic. What others see as hard to accept, or even unacceptable, in a disturbed individual is virtue and origin for complacency. She does not see the request to change her behaviour, much little to get off the stage. Seeing the origin of all the problem in the environment, he accuses others of his failures. For these reasons, it is ineffective to point out the incorrect course of action.
Demeaning the subordinates and being surrounded by clappings are manifestations of a peculiar attitude of considering their own successes and failing to see that the audience see it differently. specified a leader is simply a “star of 1 season”. erstwhile he loses popularity, he easy breaks down and feels powerless. He even threatens to hotel to extreme, life-threatening measures to encourage loyalists to mobilise and support.
Toxic steering units...
are convinced that they are the best ‘leaders’ appointed to lead others, are based on any effort to change which would require them to correct their behaviour. In this way, they destruct the atmosphere of trust and well-being in the workplace, and a large part of the community, “bound” with many dependencies, fear and “gentleman” obedience to its “man”, “castrated” from independent and courageous thinking, enjoys the solidarity it demonstrates. The origin of many subordinate addictions is the deficiency of recognition of the boss's insidious personality disorder. Many years have passed before workers discover how they were manipulated and subjected to herd thinking. erstwhile fewer yet decide to open up, the various losses and intellectual costs are beyond repair.
Despite the support of union organisations and the notification to the university authorities, ombudsmen of labour rights are not at all willing to take preventive and explanatory action. They frequently await the individual conclusions of the victims erstwhile they fear the individual consequences that they face. This creates a vicious circle, convenient for the perpetrators of perversion. In addition, many say that there is simply a peculiar collusion between the authorities of different levels to support themselves in hard matters. Private workers lose to conexion device and layout.
Popular and pushy forms of electronic communication with declarations of loyalty to the superior remind us of scenes from Stanislaw Barea’s “Misia”: “We had very good conditions on the groups! All thanks to our CEO, and it's not actual that the roof was leaking over the beds! Especially since it almost didn't rain! The president takes care of us like the best father!”
Loyals will not replace the essential reflection, expressed in a wise and courageous debate, at least not a political and full of hysterical amok. The deficiency of courage among the "old" staff is alarming. elder professors present cannot afford anything more than nodding and gratitude to a benevolent individual for even a residual employment. It's like any inexcusable coercion tells them to take the attitude of mindless cmokirs who don't have much to lose at retirement age.
Personalities disorders affect not only the attitude of their host, but besides those who cooperate with him. This is due to the constant stress that brings out the worst in humans and is conflict-ogenic. Throwing your stress on others causes anxiety disorders in your subordinates. Despite their qualifications, they feel depreciated, underestimated or even excluded.
A very typical phenomenon in personality disorder is to view yourself as a victim erstwhile at last various charges come to light. alternatively of trying to realize the causes of workers' pretensions, he is increasingly absorbed and absorbed in his well-being ("I am tired", "no 1 understands me" etc.). He makes himself a martyr, who "pains for the millenian" and meets him in his opinion of ingratitude and wickedness. alternatively of explaining the charges against him (although press) he mobilizes with the aid of serviceful workers the opinion of the workplace so that as many people as possible confirm his integrity. At the same time, he does not realize that for many subordinates this is simply a immense form of discomfort and humiliation.
The fact is, nobody's perfect. Everyone has any “disturbed personality”, but it is worth being aware of their intellectual resilience and humility in serving another people. The deficiency of predisposition to the management of human teams and the dysfunction of decisions and actions should be a wake-up call for the environment, so that specified individuals never again call for executive positions.
I'm far from attributing all the disabilities to the personality disorder of the organization's leader. But it cannot be hidden that it is up to him to mobilise all her "creative powers." If it itself is simply a origin of problems (although immense bureaucracy in decision-making processes, blocking awards for well-deserved workers, machinations for professional promotions, hiring at the discretion of others, etc.), it should be subject to public evaluation before the start of the next term, responding to all the doubts that arise in public space. Even if they're anonymous reports. In addition, it is worth distinguishing anonymous informants from anonymous interlocutors of journalists. The names of the second are usually known to editorials.
It is peculiarly crucial to mention these phenomena to the perception of the student community. What models will young people’s college learn if it itself suffers from the deficit of democracy as a form of life, a form of developing healthy human relationships? A 100 years ago, American philosopher John Dewey noted that the Prussian model of education, dating back to the 19th century, prepares young people to function in an authoritarian state alternatively than in democracy.
Escape From Freedom
Erich Fromm, in turn, drew attention in his celebrated book to 1 of the dangerous factors that lie in individual attitudes, i.e. “a escape from freedom”. It means a tendency to search safety, shelter and comfort in various types of ties. People are afraid of being alienated, losing their community identity. Therefore, they show their will to belong so as not to feel alone. It's an crucial premise of obedience and submission to narcissistic leaders.
In addition, there is an uncritical surrender to the power of impersonal algorithms and bureaucratic procedures, which consequence in the deepening of this "excursion from freedom". Many activities in this strategy are staged, and unit managers usage this condition to build a network of support and exchange various benefits around them.
A constructive debate on the state of Polish discipline has disappeared. possibly there's not much more to save. The authorities of many Polish universities are faced with the task of making a courageous moral inventory, as many damages have been caused by pseudo-reforms, related to restructuring, formalistic evaluation of achievements, lowering levels of investigation and teaching.
Thus, in order to break from the incorrect practices of pedagogy in universities, it is essential to free ourselves from the powerful addictions caused by organization and symbolic violence. The basic condition is to “pick off the stools” people with no talents, manners and professionalism in the management of human teams. First of all, alternatively of lofty manifestos and declarations, the practice of broad and open debate should be introduced, free from the comic hierarchy of pseudo-authorities ("I, the mayor, tell you this), draw attention to how we treat each other, how decisions are made and how much they express respect for the needs and expectations of the university environment.
Prof. Stanisław Bielen
Think Poland, No. 23-24 (2-9.06.2024)
