NUST Business School, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Hang Tuah Jaya, Melaka 76100, Malaysia.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Mar 19;18(6):3207. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18063207.
This research article investigates the effect of organisational climate and technology usage on employees' physiological and emotional health damage resulting from face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying at the workplace. Furthermore, we investigated emotional intelligence as a coping strategy to moderate employee physiological and emotional health damage. The research used a quantitative research design. A five-point Likert-scale questionnaire was used to collect data from a multistage sample of 500 officials from Pakistan's four service sectors. Results revealed that organisational climate and technology usage are negatively related to face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying at the workplace. At the same time, workplace bullying adversely affects an employee's emotional and physiological health. However, emotional intelligence can reduce an employee's emotional health damage due to workplace bullying. Thus, we suggest incorporating emotional intelligence training at the workplace to minimise the devastating effects of face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying on employees' physical and emotional health.
这项研究探讨了组织氛围和技术使用对员工因面对面欺凌和网络欺凌而导致的生理和情绪健康损害的影响。此外,我们还研究了情绪智力作为一种应对策略,以调节员工的生理和情绪健康损害。研究采用定量研究设计。使用五点李克特量表问卷从巴基斯坦四个服务部门的 500 名官员的多阶段样本中收集数据。结果表明,组织氛围和技术使用与工作场所的面对面欺凌和网络欺凌呈负相关。同时,工作场所欺凌会对员工的情绪和生理健康产生不利影响。然而,情绪智力可以减轻员工因工作场所欺凌而导致的情绪健康损害。因此,我们建议在工作场所引入情绪智力培训,以最大程度地减少面对面欺凌和网络欺凌对员工身体和情绪健康的破坏性影响。