The Study of Antecedents of Workplace Bully: the research on attachment style and self-esteem

• Main Author: 吳廷鴻
• Other Authors: 李銘章
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01962588116661621161

碩士 === 佛光大學 === 管理學系 === 99 === Under the trend of globalization, not only the cooperation between companies but also the unity of employees are essential for the enterprise value. People are the basic compositing element for an enterprise. By improving the relationship between employees, the cohesion of each others will be strengthen. A highly organized cooperation between the employees will make higher profit for an enterprise. However, the workplace bully could impede the development of the cooperation relationship, which caused huge amount of social costs and enterprise income lost. In Europe, American and Japan, the researches had indicated that the workplace bully caused the increasing turnover rate of employee, absenteeism, and reducing efficiency and working quality. Yet, in Taiwan, the studies in this field were still rare. This research is forced on the relationship between employee’s personality and workplace bully. First of all, by the literature review, to understand the correlations of workplace bully, attachment style and self esteem. Subsequently, this study used surveys designed by Self-esteem Scale, Negative Acts Scale and Attachment style Scale. 252 employees in public and private enterprises were tested, and the statistical data were processed by correlation and multiple regression analysis. In this study, the result showed the influence of different attachment style on the formation of workplace bully. The employee with preoccupied attachment style and dismissing attachment style has much high chance to become the victims of bully than secure attachment one. Furthermore, Self-esteem is also showed the correlation with workplace bully. For the enterprises, the detection of workplace bully among employees, which reduces employee’s loyalty for the organization and job satisfaction, become a great matter of concern. Finally, this study could improve some information for further studies and the management decisions.