Organizational Bullying and Women Stress in Workplace

Abstract

Purpose: Women in the various governmental and private organizations are significantly enhanced in recent years and have got the specific role in the knowledge based economy as productive human resource. The attendance of women in society is dominantly effective when the vital circumstances are provided for their presence. One of the obstructions in women's path is the organizational bullying which expose stress to women and disturb their mental and physical tranquility. The purpose of this paper is to review the relationship of organizational bullying and stress. Methodology: sample comprises the women clerks in Tehran University and 285 individuals are considered as sample. For data gathering, we chose questionnaire by 5 choices Likert scale with 25 questions for organizational bullying and 25 ones for stress. Also, we analyzed the data by the method of factor analysis and spearman correlation. Findings: The findings depicted the dominance of recognizing the stressful factors in workplace and proposing some tricks to deteriorate them. Conclusion: The results illustrate that relationship between the bullying and stress in significant. It sounds that some factors such as unawareness of women of their rights, unawareness of an accurate definitions of bullying, unfamiliarity with its elements and neglecting them in the workplaces and finally, approval of masculinity have entails in emergence of the passive position from women in this regard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of International Journal of Business & Management is the property of Canadian Center of Science & Education and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)