BULLYING AT FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IN TURKEY
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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
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