Emotional Competency

Emotional Competency
Developing Essential Social Skills

Scapegoat
Blaming a Victim for the Group's Misfortune

Bad things are happening. Whose fault is it? Let's blame the scapegoat.

Definitions

One member of the in-group identified as the source of many problems.
A victim chosen within the organization to be sacrificed for the benefit of all others.
A pariah, an outcast, someone dangerous to the organization and to be avoided.
The fall guy,
Transferring blame

And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited. (Leviticus XVI, 22)
William Holman Hunt 'The Scapegoat'

References

Incestuous Workplace: Stress and Distress in the Organizational Family, by William L. White

Scapegoats, by Tom Douglas

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