Personality and Experience of Mobbing: Three Types of Mobbing and the Consequences at the Workplace

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and  types of mobbing. It also focuses on the interaction between three types of mobbing with employee attitudes and the role of person-organization fit in this relationship. Data was collected from 329 employees and proposed model was tested through Structural Equation Modelling. Study showed that employees high in neuroticism were more likely report person-related mobbing compared to the work related or physical mobbing. Moreover, as expected work-related mobbing was related to job satisfaction, life satisfaction and turnover intentions where person-organization fit was a mediator. By emphasizing the differences between types of mobbing, new perspectives on how to deal with mobbing at workplace will be explored. New interventions would be developed by focusing the differences between various mobbing experiences in the organizations. 

Keywords

• Mobbing,Neuroticism,Satisfaction,Person-Organization Fit,Turnover Intentions

Kişilik ve Psikolojik Şiddete Uğrama: Psikolojik Şiddetin Üç Türü ve İşyerinde Sonuçları

Abstract

Bu araştırma nörotisizm ve farklı zorbalık türleri arasındaki ilişkileri incelemeyi amaçlamıştır. Ayrıca üç tür zorbalık ile çalışan tutumları ve birey-örgüt uyumu arasındaki ilişkilerin rolü de incelenmiştir. Üçyüzyirmidokuz çalışandan anket yöntemiyle toplanan veriler önerilen modelde Yapısal Eşitlik Modeli kullanılarak test edilmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına gore nörotisizm puanı yüksek çalışanlar diğer zorbalık türleriyle karşılaştırıldığında en çok birey odaklı zorbalığa maruz kaldıklarını rapor etmişlerdir. Ayrıca beklendiği gibi iş odaklı zorbalık, iş doyumu, yaşam doyumu ve işten ayrılma ile ilişkili bulunmuştur. Bu ilişkide birey-örgüt uyumunun da aracı değişken olduğu görülmüştür.  Zorbalık türleri arasındaki farkların araştırılmasıyla işyerinde zorbalıkla nasıl mücadele edilebileceğine ilişkin yeni bakış açıları oluşturulabilecektir. Ayrıca işyerinde karşılaşılan farklı zorbalık yaşantıları arasındaki çeşitlilikler yeni müdahale tekniklerinin geliştirilmesine destek olacaktır

Keywords

• Zorbalık,Doyum,Nörotisizm,Birey-Örgüt Uyumu,İşten Ayrılma Eğilimi

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