Workplace bullying as an antecedent to job insecurity and intention to leave: a 6‐month prospective study

By Mats Glambek, S. B. Matthiesen, Jørn Hetland, Staale Einarsen. 2014

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Workplace bullying is a severe problem in contemporary working life, affecting up to 15 per cent of employees. Among the detrimental outcomes of bullying, it is even postulated as a major risk factor for exclusion from work. In support of this claim, the current study demonstrates that exposure to bullying behaviour predicts an increase in both levels of job insecurity and intention to leave over a 6-month time lag, among a random sample of North Sea workers (n = 734). The findings suggest that bullied employees are insecure about the permanence and content of their job, and they may be at risk of turnover and exclusion from working life. It is recommended that these outcomes are taken into consideration when incidences of workplace bullying are addressed.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Workplace bullying and employee silence (2017, background): “…by depicting dissatisfying behaviors and attitudes (e.g. job dissatisfaction, increased intention to quit; Giorgi et al., 2015; Glasø et al., 2011; Glambek et al., 2014; Houshmand et al., 2012; Tepper et al., 2009); and by engaging in revenge and retaliatory behaviors (e.g. increased workplace…”
Workplace bullying, the development of job insecurity and the role of laissez-faire leadership: A two-wave moderated mediation study (2018, background): “for theory and research, the results of this study are in line with the recently established notion that bullying can act as an interpersonal antecedent of job insecurity (Glambek et al., 2014; Park & Ono, 2016; Shoss, 2017), and may imply that other interpersonal ante-”