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Modeling the Workplace Bullying the Mediator of “Workplace Climate-Employee Health” Relationship
Journal of Management Info
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Modeling the Workplace Bullying the Mediator of “Workplace Climate-Employee Health” Relationship
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Iftikhar, Mehwish; COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Qureshi, Muhammad Imran; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
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Organizational Climate; Workplace Bullying; Employee Health; Pakistan.
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Mobbing is relatively new concept for behavioral scientists, which illustrates in the form of unfriendly behavior of employee at workplace. The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between organizational climate, workplace bullying and workers health in Higher education institutes of Pakistan. In addition, this study investigates how workplace bullying acts as a mediator between organizational climate and workers physical & psychological health. Structural equation modeling and path analysis was conducted using the AMOS software program. The reliability of the questionnaire is measured by Cronbach's coefficient alpha (α). The results from the study show a Cronbach's α score of each dimensional scale: organizational climate has been measured on the basis of 7 factors. Reliability of each factor has been calculated like the first factor leadership has been measure through 4 items. Direct and indirect effects were calculated in order to test the endogenous and exogenous variables. The results derived from seventeen Higher Educational Institutes, which comprises 9 public and 8 private educational institutions of Pakistan that indicates the fitness of the extended model and depicted that workplace bullying mediates the relationship of organizational climate and workers health. Organizational climate causes workplace bullying that affect workers physical and psychological health. The basic cause of bullying at workplace is the organizational climate along with its various elements that can better contribute in making valuable strategies to manage workplace bullying. It is important to emphasize that these findings might be used effectively in order to guide organizational interventions and theoretical developments.
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Readers insight Publisher
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The researchers are highly grateful to people who cooperated with us in the data collection phase. In addition, we are thankful to the faculty in the higher education institutions who participated in the study. The author’s declare that there is no confli
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2014-12-01
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://jmi.readersinsight.net/index.php/jmi/article/view/27
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Journal Of Management Info; Vol 4, No 1 (2014): Volume 4, Issue 1; 96-124
2313-3376 |
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eng
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http://jmi.readersinsight.net/index.php/jmi/article/view/27/pdf_19
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Copyright (c) 2014 Journal Of Management Info
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