Authority is linked to responsibility, which means knowing how to answer, both for oneself and for the world. This is also how it is linked to the power of speech. Demonstrating authority necessarily means knowing how to answer for one's actions. However, when everyone in the organization disclaims responsibility, they are no longer the author of their actions and take refuge in the anonymity of the crowd ("it's not me, it's everyone").

Harassment is a familiar notion that characterizes attitudes which are fairly common today in society, and hence in the enterprise. The expansion of this phenomenon is explained in part by the disintegration of social bonds and the establishment of social structures of a perverse nature – i.e. diverted from their object.