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标题：Factors Influencing Workplace Bullying among Employees in a Private Education Institution
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作者：Suzanne Jana ; Siti Noormi Alias
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
期号：12
页码：899-909
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v11-i12/11828
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Background – Workplace bullying can happen in any organizations. This type of bullying happens among employees and employers. Bullying at workplace is considered as one of the worst acts, including negative acts like verbal aggressions, isolation and naming, which can cause life destruction to an individual. Purpose – The purpose of the study was to determine the level of workplace bullying among employees in a private education institution. Hence, three independent variables were selected based on theories on previous studies that are abusive supervision, hostile working environment and workplace ostracism. Design – The design of this study was a quantitative method in which sixty-six respondents from support staffs in the selected private education institution participated in a survey. The method used to distribute the questionnaire was Google online survey forms. The actual respondents were 80 participants, however, only 66 respondents successfully participated in the workplace bullying survey. Findings – Based on the finding on the selected three independent variables, namely, abusive supervision, hostile working environment and workplace ostracism, it showed that abusive supervision and hostile working environment had p-value less than 0.05 which contributed to the main dependent variable that is workplace bullying. Conclusion – Several studies have demonstrated that workplace bullying, confirmed by these findings, has far-reaching effects on the entire society. The high rate of this type of workplace bullying, such as in this study, should motivate researchers to examine workplace bullying in general, and drive practitioners to do so as well.