Bullying among nurses and its relationship with burnout and organizational climate

Giorgi, Gabriele; Mancuso, Serena; Pérez, Javier Fiz; d’Antonio, Andrea Castiello; Mucci, Nicola; Cupelli, Vincenzo; Arcangeli, Giulio

doi:10.1111/ijn.12376

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“…Recent investigations were directed towards the understanding of possible interconnections between bullying and burnout, showing that bullying was positively associated with burnout among nurses [20,21]. Another recent study on nurses has indicated that workplace bullying does not affect health directly, but only indirectly, via mediation of burnout [22]. In this study, we have tried to reveal how bullying is associated with psychological distress among teachers, what effect of job strain, low social support at work, life threatening events is and how burnout is interconnected in the pathway between workplace bullying and poor mental health.…”

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Workplace bullying and mental health among teachers in relation to psychosocial job characteristics and burnout

Bernotaite¹,

Malinauskienė²

2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: The objective of the study has been to assess the associations between psychological distress and exposure to workplace bullying, taking into account possible influence of adverse psychosocial job characteristics and occupational burnout in a sample of Kaunas (Lithuania) teachers. Material and Methods: The study sample included 517 teachers from 13 secondary schools and was conducted in 2014. The participants filled in the anonymous questionnaire (response rate 71.3%). Twenty-two-item Negative Acts Questionnaire (H. Hoel and S. Einarsen) was used for measuring the exposure to workplace bullying, Goldberg 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) -psychological distress, Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) -occupational burnout, Karasek Demand-Control questionnaire -psychosocial job stressors. The IBM SPSS Statistics version 20.0 was used for performing the statistical analysis. Associations between psychological distress, exposure to workplace bullying, psychosocial job characteristics and occupational burnout were analyzed in the logistic regression and expressed in terms of odds ratios (OR). Statistical significance was determined using the 95% confidence interval (CI) level. Results: Workplace bullying was prevalent among Kaunas teachers (occasional -8.3%, severe -2.9%). Twenty-five percent of teachers suffered from psychological distress. High emotional exhaustion was found in 25.6% of them, high depersonalization in 10.6% and low personal achievement in 33.7% of cases. Almost a half of respondents (47.4%) reported job strain and 59.6% -low social support at work. Occasional and severe bullying was associated with psychological distress after adjusting to job strain, social support and emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, personal accomplishment (adjusted OR was 3.27, 95% CI: 1.56-6.84 for occasional and 4.98, 95% CI: 1.27-19.62 for severe bullying). Conclusions: Occasional and severe bullying were strong predictors for psychological distress. Burnout did not mediate those associations. The effect of job strain and low social support decreased to the insignificant level in the final model. Preventive measures are necessary to improve psychosocial working conditions in secondary education institutions. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(4):629-640

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Workplace bullying and mental health among teachers in relation to psychosocial job characteristics and burnout

Bernotaite¹,

Malinauskienė²

2017

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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“…BB has no direct impact on physical health and mental health. BB indirectly affects employees' health through functionality as an intermediate variable (Giorgi et al, 2016).…”

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The Role of Spiritual Leadership in Reducing Bullying Behavior: A Study on the Industrial Companies in Egypt

Nafei¹

2018

IJBM

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The objective of the research is to identify the role of Spiritual Leadership (SL) in reducing Bullying Behavior (BB) at the industrial companies in Egypt. The research community consists of all the employees at the industrial companies (the iron and steel sector, the construction sector, the food industry, the spinning and weaving sector and the chemical industries sector) in Sadat city in Egypt. Due to time and cost constraints, the researcher adopted a sampling method to collect data for the study. The appropriate statistical methods were used to analyze the data and test the hypotheses.The research has reached a number of results, the most important of which are: (1) the scarcity of research that focused on the study and interpretation of the relation between the study variables (SL and BB) at the industrial companies in Sadat City; (2) SL is a state expressed in a set of organizational dimensions (vision, hope/faith, altruism, meaning/meaning of work, membership, organizational commitment, and productivity), which can be used to reduce the phenomenon of BB; (3) SL is an important tool used by successful managers in developing all employees and spreading social awareness among them; (4) the general average of SL fairly high. The vision as one of the dimensions of SL ranked first, followed by hope and faith, the membership, the organizational commitment, altruistic love, and finally the productivity; (5) the general average of BB is somewhat low. The verbal as one of the dimensions of BB ranked first, followed by physical, property, finally, social BB; (6) there is a statistically significant relationship between the dimensions of SL and BB at the industrial companies in Sadat City.The research concluded that (1) managers should be interested in the future vision of their units and departments; (2) managers have the element of hope and faith in the vision of the organization; (3) the altruism of leaders in the organization; (4) the conviction of all employees of the organization that the functions they do have significance and meaning both for them and for others; (5) deepening the membership of the organization in all its employees; (6) the attention of managers to raise the level of organizational commitment; (7) the attention of managers to increase productivity and continuous improvement; (8) The design of preventive extension programs in order to reduce BB as well as its negative effects on both the bully and the victim; (9) the need to pay attention to the provision of job security; (10) taking effective corrective measures to reduce BB in the workplace; (11) attention to reduce BB in the workplace by avoiding the increase of the functional burden on the staff of the organization, ensuring the safety of the employees, not restricting the freedom and independence of the personnel concerned, the interest in the positive interaction between the employees of the organization, the attention to good relations among individuals or between the employees and their leaders in the organization, and the dev...

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“…Nursing work is demanding and stressful, which is often associated with poor well-being (e.g., Sorgaard et al, 2010; Pisanti et al, 2011, 2015; Purcell et al, 2011; Giorgi et al, 2016). Most nurses are women (in Poland, 96%) who traditionally must reconcile professional demands with responsibilities for the family.…”

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Job Demands, Engagement, and Turnover Intentions in Polish Nurses: The Role of Work-Family Interface

Dåderman

Basińska

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Background: Poland has lower ratios of employed registered nurses per 1,000 inhabitants than the EU average. Polish nurses work under miserable conditions without assisting personnel, and they reconcile their professional demands with responsibilities for their families; 96% of them are women.Rationale/Aims: This study uses Hobfoll’s conservation of resources (CORs) theory to explain the role of various resources in the improvement of work conditions in the nursing profession. Work-family conflict (WFC) and family work conflict (FWC) threaten to deplete nurses’ resources. This paper set out to (1) examine the extent to which perceived job demands (workload and interpersonal conflicts at work) and engagement (vigor, dedication, and absorption) are associated with turnover intentions (the intention to leave the present workplace and the intention to leave the nursing profession); (2) attempt to determine whether levels of WFC and FWC moderate these associations.Design/Method: This study comprised 188 female registered nurses. The inclusion criterion was to live with a partner and/or have children.Results: WFC was moderately related to FWC. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that only high job demands and low vigor were significantly associated with turnover intentions. WFC was experienced more intensively than FWC. Job demands, vigor, dedication, and turnover intentions had a strong effect on WFC, while absorption had a strong effect on FWC. However, levels of WFC and FWC did not significantly moderate these associations.Originality/Conclusion: The study produces new knowledge by examining a constellation of job demands, work engagement and WFC, which reflect the management of personal resources. Results from such a constellation in nurses from countries with a post-transformational economic system have not previously been discussed in the light of COR theory. Most importantly, we conclude that WFC does not intensify turnover intentions.

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Bullying among nurses and its relationship with burnout and organizational climate

Cited by 117 publications

References 38 publications

Workplace bullying and mental health among teachers in relation to psychosocial job characteristics and burnout

Workplace bullying and mental health among teachers in relation to psychosocial job characteristics and burnout

The Role of Spiritual Leadership in Reducing Bullying Behavior: A Study on the Industrial Companies in Egypt

Job Demands, Engagement, and Turnover Intentions in Polish Nurses: The Role of Work-Family Interface

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