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Social Support As Buffer For Workplace Negative Acts Of Professional Public Sector Employees In Vietnam, Diep T. N. Nguyen, Stephen T. T. Teo, Khai Cong Dinh
Social Support As Buffer For Workplace Negative Acts Of Professional Public Sector Employees In Vietnam, Diep T. N. Nguyen, Stephen T. T. Teo, Khai Cong Dinh
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Much has been known about negative outcomes of workplace bullying in public sectors in low power distance contexts like the UK, USA, and Australia. Little is known about workplace bullying in non-Western contexts characterized by high power distance, bureaucracy, and collectivism. This study advances Conservation of Resource (COR) theory with empirical evidence that the acquisition of social support buffered the indirect impact of bullying on work engagement in a sample of 207 Vietnamese public sector professionals. This research suggests the provision of contextual resources is critically important to enhance employee positive experience of work in the face of workplace bullying.
“... A Bit Of A Joke”: Policy And Workplace Bullying, Margaret Hodgins, Duncan Lewis, Sarah Maccurtain, Patricia Mcnamara, Victoria Hogan, Lisa Pursell
“... A Bit Of A Joke”: Policy And Workplace Bullying, Margaret Hodgins, Duncan Lewis, Sarah Maccurtain, Patricia Mcnamara, Victoria Hogan, Lisa Pursell
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
© The Author(s) 2020. Workplace bullying is pervasive and has negative impacts on organizations and their employees. Despite this, organizations generally do not deal well with the problem. Anti-bullying, or Dignity-at-Work policies, do not adequately protect employees from the harms caused by bullying. This study, based on data from the 2018 Irish Workplace Behavior Study, explores experience of organizational responses to workplace bullying, drawing on interviews with participants from three large Irish organizations. One overarching theme and five sub themes emerged from the thematic content analysis, reinforcing earlier findings regarding the complex and problematic nature of workplace bullying and opaque …