ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, COMPANY SIZE AND INDUSTRY AS FACTORS OF OCCURRENCE MOBBING: EVIDENCE FROM THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

 

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, COMPANY SIZE AND INDUSTRY AS FACTORS OF OCCURRENCE MOBBING: EVIDENCE FROM THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Jakub Michulek  

Lucia Sujanska  

 

Abstract

Unfortunately, social occurrences and practices that were deemed unwanted, bad, or even indecent merely a century ago are becoming more and more commonplace at the current stage of society’s evolution. Bullying at work has an impact on many areas of business, including daily operations and the bottom line of the company. The aim of the research is to find out whether the factors of company size, corporate culture, and industry have an impact on the occurrence of pathological relationship in the workplace. The data were processed using the SPSS Statistics program. Pearson’s χ2 test was used to test the hypotheses. The results of the research show that the size of the company and the industry have an impact on the incidence of mobbing. It is a weak, or in the case of the industry, a moderately strong dependence. In the case of organizational culture, the dependence was not confirmed.

Keywords: Mobbing, Workplace bullying, Company size, SK NACE, Organizational culture

JEL Codes: M54, M59, C12

DOI: 10.37708/el.swu.v5i2.1

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