Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator

Workplace bullying is an anti-social behaviour which is defined as continuous harassment or “mobbing” of individual employee experienced for a relatively longer period of time. This may take several forms such as constant abuse, offensive remarks or teasing, ridicule, social exclusion, harassment, p...

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Main Authors: Hassan, Arif, Sadiq Al Bir, Ahmad Talib
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: 2014
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description Workplace bullying is an anti-social behaviour which is defined as continuous harassment or “mobbing” of individual employee experienced for a relatively longer period of time. This may take several forms such as constant abuse, offensive remarks or teasing, ridicule, social exclusion, harassment, physical violence etc. The situation may be damaging to the wellbeing and job performance of the employee. However, if the organisation provided necessary support to the employee the effect of bullying could be mitigated. The paper examines these issues in selected Malaysian organisations. A randomly selected sample of 231 employees representing different industry, size, gender, age, experience and job position responded to a self-rated questionnaire which measured the study variables, namely workplace bullying, psychological strain, self-rated job performance, and organisational support. The result indicated a significant effect of bullying on psychological strain and job performance. No significant moderation effects of perceived organisational support were found in the relationship between workplace bullying and pychological strain as well as job performance. However, bullying demonstrated full moderation effect between organisational support and self-rated job performance. The findings are discussed in the light of existing literature.
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spelling iium-385982014-10-07T07:20:29Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/ Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator Hassan, Arif Sadiq Al Bir, Ahmad Talib HF5549 Personnel management Workplace bullying is an anti-social behaviour which is defined as continuous harassment or “mobbing” of individual employee experienced for a relatively longer period of time. This may take several forms such as constant abuse, offensive remarks or teasing, ridicule, social exclusion, harassment, physical violence etc. The situation may be damaging to the wellbeing and job performance of the employee. However, if the organisation provided necessary support to the employee the effect of bullying could be mitigated. The paper examines these issues in selected Malaysian organisations. A randomly selected sample of 231 employees representing different industry, size, gender, age, experience and job position responded to a self-rated questionnaire which measured the study variables, namely workplace bullying, psychological strain, self-rated job performance, and organisational support. The result indicated a significant effect of bullying on psychological strain and job performance. No significant moderation effects of perceived organisational support were found in the relationship between workplace bullying and pychological strain as well as job performance. However, bullying demonstrated full moderation effect between organisational support and self-rated job performance. The findings are discussed in the light of existing literature. 2014 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/1/EBES_Conference_Paper.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/2/scan0009.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/3/scan0010.pdf Hassan, Arif and Sadiq Al Bir, Ahmad Talib (2014) Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator. In: 13th EBES Conference, 5-7 June 2014, Istanbul, Turkey. https://www.ebesweb.org/Conferences/13th-EBES-Conference-Istanbul.aspx
spellingShingle HF5549 Personnel management
Hassan, Arif
Sadiq Al Bir, Ahmad Talib
Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title_full Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title_fullStr Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title_full_unstemmed Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title_short Effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
title_sort effect of workplace bullying on psychological strain and job performance: organisational support as moderator
topic HF5549 Personnel management
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/1/EBES_Conference_Paper.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/2/scan0009.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38598/3/scan0010.pdf