The Impact of Mobbing on Labor Productivity in Terms of Business Administration and Law: An Application in Academic World

Abstract

This study researches mobbing in labor relations. Even though mobbing could have encountered in all sectors, the education sector needs to be considered separately as it relates to the welfare level of society. It should be aimed at universities and academicians, who are one of the determinants of the development levels of their countries, study without any pressure on the quality of education. The analysis is based on a unique survey conducted with 418 academicians in every position in Istanbul universities in November 2016 to March 2017. The findings of the research revealed that productivity was strongly correlated with mobbing. Besides that, it was connected with academic freedom, self-confidence, the freedom to decide and practice and freedom of expression. For the above reason, our study aims to determine how the academicians of foundation universities in Istanbul-Turkey are affected by mobbing they exposed to in their organizations and also to understand the perspective of the Turkish judiciary on the academic mobbing events by analyzing Supreme Court decisions.