HCBE Faculty Articles
Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Journal of Business Research
ISSN
0148-2963
Publication Date
1-1-2013
Abstract/Excerpt
This paper is the first to explore the impact of culture on the acceptability of workplace bullying and to do so across a wide range of countries. Physically intimidating bullying is less acceptable than work related bullying both within groups of similar cultures and globally. Cultures with high performance orientation find bullying to be more acceptable while those with high future orientation find bullying to be less acceptable. A high humane orientation is associated with finding work related bullying to be less acceptable. Confucian Asia finds work-related bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa country clusters and finds physically intimidating bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo and Latin America country clusters. The differences in the acceptability of bullying with respect to these cultures are partially explained in terms of cultural dimensions.
Volume
66
Issue
1
First Page
374
Last Page
380
NSUWorks Citation
Powers, J. L.; Brotheridge, C. M.; Blenkinsopp, J.; Bowes-Sperry, L.; Bozionelos, N.; Buzady, Z.; Chuang, A.; Drnevich, D.; Garzon-Vico, A.; Leighton, C.; Madero, S. M.; Mak, W.; Mathew, R.; Monserrat, S. I.; Mujtaba, Bahaudin; Olivas-Lujan, M. R.; Polychroniou, P.; Sprigg, C. A.; Axtell, C.; Holman, D.; Ruiz-Gutierrez, J. A.; and Nnedum, A.U. Obiajulu, "Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents" (2013). HCBE Faculty Articles. 339.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcbe_facarticles/339
