BULLYING AT FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IN TURKEY

Year 2013, Issue: 11, 145 - 158, 20.04.2015

Kadri Akyüz Tarık Gedık , Yasin Balaban İbrahim Yıldırım Ali Temız

Abstract

This study investigates the prevalence of exposure to workplace bullying in the forest products industry in Turkey. A total of 2000 questionnaires are given to the employees in the randomly chosen company. Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror (LIPT) scale which consists of 45 categories of acts of bullying was used. The results show that 13.2% of employees were bullying victims during the previous six month and suffer from hostile behaviours at workplace and 19.2% of employees were the witnesses of bullying. In the study, the negative communication factor was determined the most important behaviour group for defining of bullying. Bullying becomes very important in business life and many studies are applied about it. However, there are not enough studies about bullying in forest products industry

Keywords

Workplace Bullying, LIPT, Forest Products Industry

TÜRKİYE ORMAN ÜRÜNLERİ SANAYİNDE PSİKOLOJİK TACİZ

Abstract

Bu çalışmada, Türkiye’deki orman ürünleri sanayi iş yerlerinde psikolojik tacize ne kadar sıklıkta maruz kalındığını araştırılmaktadır. 2000 anket rastgele seçilen şirketlerdeki çalışanlara verilmiştir. Psikolojik tacizin 45 kategorisini içeren Leymann Psikolojik Terör Envanteri (LIPT) ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Sonuçlar; çalışanların %13,2’sinin altı ay boyunca psikoloji taciz kurbanı olduğunu ve işyerindeki düşmanca davranışlara maruz kaldığını ve %19,2’sinin psikolojik tacize şahit olduğunu göstermektedir. Çalışmada; olumsuz iletişim faktörü, psikolojik tacizi tanımlamada en önemli davranış grubu olarak belirlenmiştir. Psikolojik taciz, iş hayatında önemli bir yer kaplamaya başlamıştır ve bu konuda birçok çalışma yürütülmektedir. Fakat orman ürünleri sanayinde psikolojik taciz hakkında yeterli çalışma yoktur.

Keywords

İşyeri Psikolojik Tacizi, LIPT, Orman Ürünleri Sanayi

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