Abstract
Healthcare employees are the backbone in helping a country in maintaining the best health performance of all citizens. They have been given the mandate to care and treat patients with professional ethics, however, health employees are not excluded from facing high work pressure from the various demands at work especially in the current times where the nation is struggling with the Covid -19 pandemic. This study sought to examine the prevalence of workplace bullying as well as the level of job demands faced by healthcare employees and its influence on workplace bullying experienced by the employees through a cross-sectional study involving 100 respondents. The Work Stress subscale from Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ 3) and Negative Act Questionnaire (Einarsen et al. 2009) were used to measure workplace bullying experience and job demands. The data were analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25.0. The results of the study found that workplace bullying was prevalent among the respondents especially in regards to work-related bullying (55 %). Meanwhile quantitative demands, cognitive demands and emotional demands significantly predicted workplace bullying. Work Pace however, did not significantly influence workplace bullying. Further discussions on the findings are reported in the article.
Highlights
Bullying in the workplace has been a global issue internationally and has been given attention by researchers since the early 90s
They have been given the mandate to care and treat patients with professional ethics, health employees are not excluded from facing high work pressure from the various demands at work especially in the current times where the nation is struggling with the Covid -19 pandemic
The following table describes the frequency of each sub-dimensions of work stress which are Quantitative Demands, Work Pace, Cognitive Demands and Emotional Demands
Summary
Bullying in the workplace has been a global issue internationally and has been given attention by researchers since the early 90s This bullying behavior is likely due to the occurrence of the organization’s failure to detect and address such behavior as well as its inability to protect the safety, health, and well -being of employees (Einarsen, Raknes & Matthiesen, 1994). It is not surprising why bullying behavior in the workplace is three times more common than sexual harassment Namie (2003) besides being placed as the highest factor causing stress received by employees in the workplace (Wilson, 1991). Bullying behavior that occurs at work is seen differently because the process that takes place is gradual involving psychological attacks in a systematic way and for a long period of time (Giorgi et al, 2013)
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