An investigation into the mobbing levels of the personnel working at provincial directorate of youth welfare and sports and evaluation of organizational commitment

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to determine the mobbing levels of personnel working at Provincial Directorate of Youth Welfare and Sports and to investigate the relationship between mobbing and the organizational commitment. The sample of the study included 235 personnel working at Provincial Directorates of Youth Welfare and Sports in cities in Eastern Anatolia region including Elazığ, Erzurum, Erzincan, Muş, Kars, Bingöl, Malatya and Ağrı. In terms of data collection, ‘The Mobbing Scale’ developed by Öztürk et al. which consists of 68 items was used in order to determine the mobbing levels of the participants. Additionally, in order to measure the organizational commitment of personnel, ‘the Organizational Commitment’ scale developed by Meyer and Allen which consists of 18 items was used in the study. It was based on (p<0,05) significant level. Data analysis included frequency analysis to examine the demographic information of participants, independent samples t-test to determine the mobbing level in terms of gender, marital status, status and position and one-way ANOVA to compare the mobbing levels in terms of income, age, seniority, education, jobs in institutions and city. Moreover, correlation analysis was conducted in order to measure the relationship between organizational commitment and mobbing. The results of the study indicated that there was a statistically significant negative correlation between organizational commitment and mobbing levels (r=-.716, p<0.05).