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Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study

This paper aims at investigating the prevalence of workplace bullying and the frequency of its negative acts in Malaysia. Bullying in the workplace was measured using the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R) developed by Einarsen et al (2003). A sample of 231 randomly selected respondents participate...

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Main Authors: Al Bir, Ahmed Talib Sadiq, Hassan, Arif
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Institute of Management 2014
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HF5549 Personnel management
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/37793/1/MMR_Paper.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.377932015-10-09T02:02:36Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37793/ Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study Al Bir, Ahmed Talib Sadiq Hassan, Arif HF5549 Personnel management This paper aims at investigating the prevalence of workplace bullying and the frequency of its negative acts in Malaysia. Bullying in the workplace was measured using the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R) developed by Einarsen et al (2003). A sample of 231 randomly selected respondents participated in the study. They represented both the public and private sectors, and several industry and job levels. The frequency of the negative acts (now and then, monthly, weekly, daily), excluding never, revealed shocking numbers. Among the different forms of bullying, the results indicated that 81.4% were being bullied by someone withholding information that affected their performance, 82.2% were being bullied by someone spreading gossip about them, and 82.3% were being bullied by being given tasks with unreasonable deadlines. Malaysian Institute of Management 2014 Article REM application/pdf en cc_by_nd http://irep.iium.edu.my/37793/1/MMR_Paper.pdf Al Bir, Ahmed Talib Sadiq and Hassan, Arif (2014) Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study. Malaysian Management Review, 49 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0025-1348
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topic HF5549 Personnel management
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Al Bir, Ahmed Talib Sadiq
Hassan, Arif
Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
description This paper aims at investigating the prevalence of workplace bullying and the frequency of its negative acts in Malaysia. Bullying in the workplace was measured using the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R) developed by Einarsen et al (2003). A sample of 231 randomly selected respondents participated in the study. They represented both the public and private sectors, and several industry and job levels. The frequency of the negative acts (now and then, monthly, weekly, daily), excluding never, revealed shocking numbers. Among the different forms of bullying, the results indicated that 81.4% were being bullied by someone withholding information that affected their performance, 82.2% were being bullied by someone spreading gossip about them, and 82.3% were being bullied by being given tasks with unreasonable deadlines.
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author Al Bir, Ahmed Talib Sadiq
Hassan, Arif
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Hassan, Arif
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title Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
title_short Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
title_full Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
title_fullStr Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
title_full_unstemmed Workplace bullying in Malaysia: an exploratory study
title_sort workplace bullying in malaysia: an exploratory study
publisher Malaysian Institute of Management
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/37793/1/MMR_Paper.pdf
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