Evaluation of the anti-workplace bullying legislations and policies of the overseas countries and South Korea

Seo, Yoojeong Nadine; Park, Yoonhee

doi:10.35605/jss.2017.04.26.1.181

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“…Education programs that seek to promote healthy and safe working environments and focus on the effects, prevention, and responses to WPV may increase workers' ability to respond to violence in the workplace (Havaei et al, 2019). In Korea, WPV prevention education is provided to workers in accordance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act, but it has been reported that organizational awareness regarding WPV is insufficient (Seo & Park, 2017). Campaigns that increase awareness regarding the risks of WPV and improve workplace culture, relevant education, and policies are necessary.…”

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Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

Kim

2021

Workplace Health Saf

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Background: Workplace violence (WPV) is a global public health problem and a threat to the health of Korean workers. This study assessed the prevalence and risk factors of WPV and its association with mental and physical health among Korean workers. Methods: Data obtained for 50,205 respondents to the Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey were utilized for this study. Verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were assessed individually and as a composite for “any WPV.” Workers were characterized by education, income, shift work status, access to a health and safety education program, work sector and overall health. Descriptive analyses and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the prevalence of WPV and its association with mental and physical health. Findings: Overall, 5.6% of workers reported experiencing one of four forms of WPV. The prevalence of verbal abuse, threats, physical violence, and sexual harassment were 4.9%, 0.7%, 0.2%, and 1.1%, respectively. Most perpetrators were customers. Prevalence of WPV was associated with lower education level, poor health status, long working hours, shift work, and no experience of health and safety education; 9.0% of service workers experienced violence. Workers who had experienced WPV were more likely to experience anxiety, sleep-related problems, depressive symptoms, back pain, headache/eye strain, and overall fatigue. Conclusions/Applications to Practice: Workplace violence is a serious occupational and public health concern in Korea. These results suggest managing WPV may improve workers’ well-being and that violence-prevention strategies, policies, and regulations should be implemented across most industries.

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Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

Kim

2021

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“…In this context, nursing leaders have implemented changes at the management level to prevent WPB, including mentoring, coaching and other coping programmes (ANA, 2015). Most policies on WPB have focused on the effect it has on the perpetrator or victim (Seo & Park, 2017). While this focus can have great impact on the short‐term impact, it aggravates the bullying situation in the long term.…”

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Workplace bullying and different levels of post‐traumatic stress symptoms of nurses: A quantile regression approach for effective coping strategies

Hong

Kim

Choi

et al. 2021

J Nursing Management

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Aim This study aimed to investigate effects of workplace bullying on different post‐traumatic stress symptoms and coping among hospital nurses. Background Workplace bullying is a traumatic event that negatively affects the quality of patient care and nurses’ mental health. Method This cross‐sectional, correlational study used an online survey among hospital nurses. Ordinary least square and quantile regression analyses were conducted using Stata version 16. Results The study included 233 registered nurses from South Korea who had provided direct care to patients in a hospital for at least 6 months. Overall, 28% self‐identified as victims or witnesses and 37% as victims and witnesses simultaneously. ‘Victim’ and ‘passive coping’ were significantly associated with the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles groups of post‐traumatic stress symptoms, while ‘witness’ was significant in the 95th percentile group. Conclusion Our study findings explore nurses’ workplace bullying, detect high‐risk subgroups and suggest the development of coping interventions for reducing workplace bullying and post‐traumatic stress symptoms. Implications for Nursing Management The study identified associations among bullying experience types, severity of post‐traumatic stress symptoms and passive coping. It is critical to explore traumatic experience types and severity of post‐traumatic stress symptoms for nurses at risk of workplace bullying.

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“…A survey of Korean clinical nurses also showed that 19.0% of participants had experienced at least two different kinds of daily or weekly bullying from colleagues or bosses during the past 6 months [ 10 ]. This is three to five times higher than in the service industry (4.1%) or the electronics and steel industry (5.8%) [ 11 ]. Additionally, 23.0% of South Korean nurses are victims of malicious torment at work, and it is reported that bullying is so prevalent in the workplace that more than 65.0% of South Korean nurses experience bullying at least once in their career [ 7 ].…”

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“…Although many nurses in Korea experience bullying in the workplace, they choose to ignore or avoid the problem as it is difficult to handle on an individual level [ 6 ]. Consequently, legislation on bullying in the workplace has been proposed five times in Congress in the form of amendments to the Labor Standards Act since 2013, but it has yet to be passed [ 11 ].…”

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The Association between Korean Clinical Nurses’ Workplace Bullying, Positive Psychological Capital, and Social Support on Burnout

Bae

Hong²,

Chang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Recurring shortages of nursing peoplepower in recent Korean society have impacted nursing organizations with burnout accounting for a major part of nursing staff turnover. Thus, we studied the associations between workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support and whether they predict nursing burnout. We used hierarchical regression analysis to observe changes in influencing factors by sequentially entering general traits, workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support from 166 clinical nurses at two hospitals. The analysis showed that being female (β = 0.18), working three shifts (β = 0.40), workplace bullying (β = 0.24), and positive psychological capital (β = −0.28) were predictors of burnout (F = 11.25, p < 0.001), explaining 44.5% of the variance. An analysis of the correlations between burnout, workplace bullying, positive psychological capital, and social support revealed that workplace bullying was positively correlated with burnout (r = 0.36, p < 0.001), and positive psychological capital (r = −0.49, p < 0.001) and social support (r = −0.37, p < 0.001) were negatively correlated with burnout. Thus, the higher positive psychological capital within an organization, the lower the level of burnout, suggesting that organizations should consider education programs to promote positive psychological capital. In addition, healthy organizational culture should be promoted by monitoring workplace bullying.

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Evaluation of the anti-workplace bullying legislations and policies of the overseas countries and South Korea

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Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

Associations Between Workplace Violence, Mental Health, and Physical Health among Korean Workers: The Fifth Korean Working Conditions Survey

Workplace bullying and different levels of post‐traumatic stress symptoms of nurses: A quantile regression approach for effective coping strategies

The Association between Korean Clinical Nurses’ Workplace Bullying, Positive Psychological Capital, and Social Support on Burnout

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