Personality and Experience of Mobbing: Three Types of Mobbing and the Consequences at the Workplace

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the relationship between neuroticism and types of mobbing. It also focuses on the interaction between three types of mobbing with employee attitudes and the role of person-organization fit in this relationship. Data was collected from 329 employees and proposed model was tested through Structural Equation Modelling. Study showed that employees high in neuroticism were more likely report person-related mobbing compared to the work related or physical mobbing. Moreover, as expected work-related mobbing was related to job satisfaction, life satisfaction and turnover intentions where person-organization fit was a mediator. By emphasizing the differences between types of mobbing, new perspectives on how to deal with mobbing at workplace will be explored. New interventions would be developed by focusing the differences between various mobbing experiences in the organizations.