Workplace Bullying Case Study

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INTRODUCTION

Workplace bullying is now a dilemma that is too expensive to ignore. Bullying in the workplace can create a hostile work environment, which makes people miserable and hurts work productivity. According to Lapierre, Spector and Leck, (2005), those who are obvious sufferers of workplace bullying reported highly overall job dissatisfaction. Similarly, those who bear aggression from their supervisors report high levels of job dissatisfaction. (Tepper, 2000).

BACKGROUND OF STUDY There were many study have done by researcher many years ago about workplace bullying or violence in the workplace. Violence in the workplace is a growing issue in the healthcare and community care sector. Workplace bullying is often associated with …show more content…

Bullying at work is claimed to be an extreme form of social stress. It is referred to as a more crippling and devastating problem for employees than all other work-related stressors put together (Matthiesen et al., 2004). There is some studies were related to workplace bullying, as example, Fapohunda T. M. (2013) study showed victims of workplace bullying often exhibit lower levels of self-esteem and feel that their personalities caused them to be bullied. Unfortunately, organizational leaders either do not recognize the damaging effects of workplace bullying, or they do not know how to productively occur (Salin, …show more content…

Workplace Bullying: Aggressive Behavior And Its Effect On Job Satisfaction And Productivity. A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership.

Lapierre, L.M., Spector, P.E., Leck, J.D. (2005). Sexual versus nonsexual workplace aggression and victims' overall job satisfaction: A meta-analysis. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 10 (2), 155–169.

Shehnaz Bano, Sadia Malik. (2013). Impact of Workplace Bullying on Organizational Outcome. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, 7 (3), 618-627.

Van Katwyk, P. T., Spector, P. E., Fox, S., & Kelloway, E. K. (2000). Development of the Job related affective well-being scale (JAWS). Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 5, 219–230.

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Section A: Demographic Background
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