A study into the effects of bullying at work, including bullying via e-mail, was conducted in a large Multi National Corporation. A considerable amount of bullying was found on the e-mail system, with negative outcomes similar to those of conventional bullying. Bullying was associated with anxiety and tendency to quit, and negatively associated with job satisfaction and performance. The results...

BACKGROUND Workplace bullying has been measured in many studies to investigate mental health issues. None uses online computerized adaptive testing (CAT) with cutting points to report bully prevalence at workplace. OBJECTIVE To develop an online CAT to examine person being bullied and verify whether item response theory-based CAT can be applied online for nurses to measure exposure to workpla...

the purpose of this study is to survey the relationshipsbetween leadership styles, organizational health and bullying inislamic republic of iran railway company. this study is conductedon 235 non-managerial employees who were working in threedepartments of iran railway company in may 2012. for this purposeused stratified random sampling method and data being gathered viaquestionnaire. the desig...

Objective: to evaluate psychometric properties of the Negative Acts Questionnaire – Revised (NAQ-R), an instrument for detecting bullying, and to investigate the correlation between bullying dimensions and the variables job satisfaction and self-reported health according to sex. Methods: cross-sectional study with factor analysis of a sample of 677 workers from state healthcare units. Data were...

OBJECTIVES Although incivility is a common interpersonal mistreatment and associated with poor mental health, there are few studies about it in Asian countries. The aim of this study was to develop the Japanese version of the modified Work Incivility Scale (J-MWIS), investigate its reliability and validity, and reveal the prevalence of incivility among Japanese employees in comparison with data...

OBJECTIVES To deliver an estimate of bullying among residents and fellows in the United States graduate medical education system and to explore its prevalence within unique subgroups. DESIGN/SETTING/PARTICIPANTS A national cross-sectional survey from a sample of residents and fellows who completed an online bullying survey conducted in June 2015. The survey was distributed using a chain sampl...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence, to report barriers and mental health impact of bullying behaviours and to analyse whether psychological support at work could affect victims of bullying in the healthcare workplace. DESIGN Self-administered questionnaire survey. SETTING 20 in total neonatal intensive care units in 17 hospitals in Greece. PARTICIPANTS 398 healt...

Why bullying and harassment in the workplace are increasingly being hushed up.