The Study On The Content Structure Of Workplace Bullying And Its Relationship With Other Factors

Workplace bullying is a situation, in which an individual has to accept some negative behaviors, and these negative behaviors come from one person or more. Studying "Workplace Bullying" helps the development of healthy organization. Recently, it has become the focus of studies of work and health psychology.The purposes of this dissertation were to investigate the contents of workplace bullying as well as to study the consequences of workplace bullying in china. For these purposes, some standard research method, such as literature review, interview and survey were used in this research. In addition, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were also applied for date analysis. The main conclusions are as the following:Firstly, the content of workplace bullying consisted of three factors, which included personal attack, attack through work tasks, social exclusion. The reliability and validity of workplace bullying content questionnaire were highly enough.Secondly, the research discussed about the demographical variable's effects on workplace bullying. The demographical variable included sex, age, service year, unites character and position. We found that the demographical variable except age and position had some significant effects on some dimensions of workplace bullying.Thirdly, the research discussed the relationship between workplace bullying and its consequence. It was discovered that "personal attack" was negatively correlated with organizational commitment; "attack by work tasks" was negatively correlated with organizational commitment but positively correlated with intention to leave; "social exclusion" only was positively correlated with intention to leave.Fourthly, the research discussed the mediate effects of organizational commitment by hierarchical regression analysis. We found that organizational commitment was only the partially mediate variable in the relationship between "attack through work tasks" and intention to leave.Current limitations and future research orientation were also discussed at the end of the dissertation.