The relationship between personality and being exposed to workplace bullying or mobbing

Workplace bullying which is frequently in discussion at organizations and academia, and effects badly quality of both work and private life of victims and witnesses can be prevent if the antecedents of the phenomenon is known. Some researchers stress on organizational and individual antecedents while some others refuse personality factor. School-based studies found significant relationship between personality and bullying which is the start point for workplace bullying studies about personality factors. The study is done in order to investigate the relation between workplace bullying and personality of employee being exposed to such behaviors that is stated as “victim”. Because there are few academic studies in Turkey about workplace bullying, which is just new and less known issue and personality of victim, by investigating international researches, personality of victim is found to have taken into consideration as one of antecedent of workplace bullying. A cross sectional survey is done in a single company in order to investigate the relationship between variables and similarly to the international researches significant correlations found.

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Workplace Bullying ,

Mobbing ,

Personality ,