THE EFFECT OF WORKPLACE BULLYING ON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF BANKING EMPLOYEES OF MARDAN

Authors

  • Nagina ALAM Scholar Institute of Management Sciences
  • Syed Zain Ul Abdin Abbottabad university of science and technology

Keywords:

Workplace Bullying, Counterproductive Work Behavior, Banking Employees

Abstract

Nowadays workplace bullying is a serious and crucial problem in corporate environment. Rise of the deviant attitudes of the colleagues and managers towards its employees in the company, influences the development of deviant behavior of employees as CWB (counterproductive work behavior) which not only disturbs the productivity and performance of the company, but also effect the psychological and physiological health of the employees. Additionally, it also increases the turnover rate of employees in the company. Due to this reason, descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression analyses were used to find out the association between workplace bullying (WB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The data for this research was collected from125 employees of banks of Mardan, KPK. The result exhibited a positive association between WB (workplace bullying) and CWB (counterproductive work behavior).

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29.06.2022

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ALAM, N., & Zain Ul Abdin, S. (2022). THE EFFECT OF WORKPLACE BULLYING ON COUNTERPRODUCTIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: AN EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF BANKING EMPLOYEES OF MARDAN. Journal of Organizational Behavior Studies, 2(1), 20–34. Retrieved from https://obstudies.org/index.php/obs/article/view/7
Received 2022-05-24
Accepted 2022-06-25
Published 2022-06-29