Bullying in the Workplace

Bullying is the topic of personal family life, schools, and in the workplace. Bullying in the workplace brings attention to both practitioners and researchers (Lind, Glasø, Pallesen, & Einarsen, 2009). Vie, Glaso, & Einarsen, (2010) believes that almost 50% of the European workforce is exposed to some type of bullying. While Hauge, Skogstad, & Einarsen, (2009) reports that working environments that are stressful are known for the development of workplace bullying. Although three different articles with different writers all believe that bullying engages in the workplace. This essay will compare the research questions, sample population, and the limitations of the studies of these three articles.

Research Questions Comparison

Hauge, Skogstad, and Einarsen, (2009) article on individual and situational predictors propose the question “What individual and situational variables predict bullying of others in the workplace? The assumption that brought on the question is the overload of work causing stress that leads to bullying at the workplace. The research has been minimal as to the reasoning of workplace bullying causing a gap in literature enforcing the exploration of contributing variables (Hauge, et al, 2009). A survey to the workers was evoked to potentially explore the variables that may provoke bullying. The survey consisted of questions that involved situational variables such as role uncertainty, decision making, and interpersonal conflicts. Individual variables included gender, age, and position (Hauge et al., 2009).

Vie, Glaso, and Einarsen, (2010) article on the relationship between trait anger, trait anxiety or organizational position questioned if trait anger, anxiety, or hierarchy positioning caused employees to be n...

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...to bullying (Lind et al., 2009), they all showed disrespect to each other in the workplace and the gaps in the literature defines the need for more research.

Works Cited

Hauge, L., Skogstad, A., & Einarsen, S. (2009). Individual and situational predictors of workplace bullying: Why do perpetrators engage in the bullying of others?. Work & Stress, 23(4), 349-358. doi:10.1080/02678370903395568

Lind, K., Glasø, L., Pallesen, S., & Einarsen, S. (2009). Personality profiles among targets and nontargets of workplace bullying. European Psychologist, 14(3), 231-237. doi:10.1027/1016-9040.14.3.231

Vie, T., Glasø, L., & Einarsen, S. (2010). Does trait anger, trait anxiety or organizational position moderate the relationship between exposure to negative acts and self-labeling as a victim of workplace bullying?. Nordic Psychology, 62(3), 67-79. doi:10.1027/1901-2276/a000017