Workplace Bullying
"Do you bully people or have you done so in the past?" (Peyton, 2003, p. 7) constitutes one contemporary concern/question currently challenging employees in workplaces all over the world. In response to contemporary, challenging concerns related to answers to this leading question, this paper explores the prevalence, forms and impact of workplace bullying in a sample of 26 executive secretaries and personal assistants from 22 private organizations in Bangkok, Thailand during June 2007.
Using a Workplace Bullying Questionnaire, this study seeks to answer the following questions:
How many of the executive secretaries and personal assistants are victims of workplace bullying?
How many of the executive secretaries and personal assistants have witnessed an individual being bullied at work?
What are the different forms of workplace bullying experienced by the executive secretaries and personal assistants?
What are the consequences of workplace bullying?
Is there a significant relationship between the position of the bully and the event of bullying?
How does the company handle workplace bullying?
Methods of statistical analysis utilized to complete this study include:
1) Percentile ranks (to obtain the number of victims of workplace bullying and those who have witnessed workplace bullying), and 2) Chi square test (to discover the extent of relationships between the position of the bully and the event of bullying).
Answers retrieved from additional research questions complements this research effort. Information collected from this research may help human resource managers, industrial psychologists and counselors to create new or complement current visionary programs and policies related to workplace bullying. This study also discusses theoretical and practical issues, as well as, reports limitations experienced during the course of completing answers to "bullying," sometimes serve to fuse senseless explosive scenarios.
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CHAPTER: INTRODUCTION 1
Bullying Admissions 1 Definitely Out There 2 Research Background 2 Study Area 3 Research Questions and/or Considerations 4 Aim and Objectives 6 Bank, Thailand 8
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 10
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