Are role stressors and workaholism related to abusive behaviour at work? The mediating role of workplace bullying

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Balducci ◽  
W. Schaufeli ◽  
F. Fraccaroli
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Role Stressors ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Abusive Behaviour

scholarly journals THE MEDIATING ROLE OF WORKPLACE INTERPERSONAL MISTREATMENT: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF BANKING SECTOR OF PAKISTAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-88
Author(s):  
Naveed Iqbal Chaudhry ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Workplace Incivility ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Role Stressors ◽  
Mediating Role

The underlying motive for this research is to figure out the structure of predictors and outcome of workplace bullying and workplace incivility in the banking sector of Pakistan. This paper aims to contribute valuable information about workplace bullying and workplace incivility as mediators to the scholarly research. An explanatory research design was employed. The data was collected from 600 banking professionals through personally administered questionnaires. SPSS-21 and Amos-21 were employed to analyze the quantitative data. For the purpose of testing hypotheses, structural equation modeling technique was employed. The results of this study provide a proof of association between the role stressors and two very important types of workplace interpersonal mistreatment, the workplace bullying and workplace incivility. Additionally, it was found that workplace bullying and workplace incivility play a mediating role between role stressors and turnover intentions among banking employees of Pakistan. Furthermore, the results reveal that the banking employees having experienced bullying and incivility are very prone to form turnover inclination.

Bullying and turnover intentions: how creative employees overcome perceptions of dysfunctional organizational politics

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk De Clercq ◽  
Tasneem Fatima ◽  
Sadia Jahanzeb
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Organizational Politics ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Environments ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThis study seeks to unpack the relationship between employees' exposure to workplace bullying and their turnover intentions, with a particular focus on the possible mediating role of perceived organizational politics and moderating role of creativity.Design/methodology/approachThe hypotheses are tested with multi-source, multi-wave data collected from employees and their peers in various organizations.FindingsWorkplace bullying spurs turnover intentions because employees believe they operate in strongly politicized organizational environments. This mediating role of perceived organizational politics is mitigated to the extent that employees can draw from their creative skills though.Practical implicationsFor managers, this study pinpoints a critical reason – employees perceive that they operate in an organizational climate that endorses dysfunctional politics – by which bullying behaviors stimulate desires to leave the organization. It also reveals how this process might be contained by spurring employees' creativity.Originality/valueThis study provides novel insights into the process that underlies the connection between workplace bullying and quitting intentions by revealing the hitherto overlooked roles of employees' beliefs about dysfunctional politics and their own creativity levels.

Moral distress and burnout in Iranian nurses: The mediating effect of workplace bullying

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1834-1847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fardin Ajoudani ◽  
Rahim Baghaei ◽  
Mojgan Lotfi
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Distress Scale ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Negative Acts

Background: Moral distress and workplace bullying are important issues in the nursing workplace that appear to affect nurse’s burnout. Aim: To investigate the relationship between moral distress and burnout in Iranian nurses, as mediated by their perceptions of workplace bullying. Ethical considerations: The research was approved by the committee of ethics in research of the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. Method: This is a correlation study using a cross-sectional design with anonymous questionnaires as study instruments (i.e. Moral Distress Scale-Revised, Maslach Burnout Inventory and The Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised). Data were collected from 278 nurses from five teaching hospitals in Urmia, the capital of Western Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran. Structural equation modeling and bootstrapping procedures were employed to recognize the mediating role of their perceptions of workplace bullying. Results: The mean score of moral distress, burnout, and the Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised Scale among the participants were 91.02 ± 35.26, 79.9 ± 18.27, and 45.4 ± 15.39, respectively. The results confirmed our hypothesized model. All the latent variables of study were significantly correlated in the predicted directions. The moral distress and bullying were significant predictors of burnout. Perception of bullying partially mediated the relationship between moral distress and burnout. The mediating role of the bullying suggests that moral distress increases burnout, directly and indirectly. Conclusion: Nursing administrators should be conscious of the role of moral distress and bullying in the nursing workplace in increasing burnout.

scholarly journals Workplace Bullying as a Risk Factor for Musculoskeletal Disorders: The Mediating Role of Job-Related Psychological Strain

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Vignoli ◽  
Dina Guglielmi ◽  
Cristian Balducci ◽  
Roberta Bonfiglioli
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Related Strain ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
Indirect Relationship

Workplace bullying is considered by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work one of the emerging psychosocial risk factors that could negatively affect workers’ health. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze the process that leads from bullying to negative health (such as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)), testing the mediating role of job-related strain. Data were collected on 512 workers (62.9% female; mean age = 43.6 years) of a retail chain who filled in a self-report questionnaire after a one-hour training session on work-related stress. Data analyses were performed controlling for potentially confounding variables (i.e., gender, age, organizational role, type of contract, and perceived physical job demands). Preacher and Hayes analytical approach was used to test the indirect relationship between bullying and MSDs. Results showed that work-related strain mediates the relationship between bullying and MSDs considered (low back, upper back, and neck) except for MSDs of the shoulders. Our study confirms the role played by bullying and job-related strain in determining workers’ MSDs.

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