Amponsah-Tawiah Kwesi, Annor Francis
Department of Organization and Human Resource Management, University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Saf Health Work. 2017 Mar;8(1):72-76. doi: 10.1016/j.shaw.2016.08.003. Epub 2016 Sep 20.
Workplace victimization is considered a major social stressor with significant implications for the wellbeing of employees and organizations. The aim of this study was to examine the influences of employees' personality traits and organizational politics on workplace victimization among Ghanaian employees.
Using a cross-sectional design, data were collected from 631 employees selected from diverse occupations through convenience sampling. Data collection tools were standardized questionnaires that measured experiences of negative acts at work (victimization), the Big Five personality traits, and organizational politics.
The results from hierarchical multiple regression analysis showed that among the personality traits neuroticism and conscientiousness had significant, albeit weak relationships with victimization. Organizational politics had a significant positive relationship with workplace victimization beyond employees' personality.
The study demonstrates that compared with personal characteristics such as personality traits, work environment factors such as organizational politics have a stronger influence on the occurrence of workplace victimization.
职场受欺负被视为一种主要的社会压力源,对员工和组织的福祉具有重大影响。本研究的目的是考察加纳员工的个性特质和组织政治对职场受欺负的影响。
采用横断面设计,通过便利抽样从不同职业的631名员工中收集数据。数据收集工具是标准化问卷,用于测量工作中的负面行为经历(受欺负情况)、大五人格特质和组织政治。
分层多元回归分析结果表明,在个性特质中,神经质和尽责性与受欺负存在显著但较弱的关系。组织政治与职场受欺负之间存在显著的正相关关系,且超出了员工个性的影响。
该研究表明,与个性特质等个人特征相比,组织政治等工作环境因素对职场受欺负的发生影响更强。