Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents

Power, Jacqueline L.; Brotheridge, Céleste M.; Blenkinsopp, John; Bowes-Sperry, Lynn; Bozionelos, Nikos; Buzády, Zoltán; Chuang, Aichia; Drnevich, Dawn; Garzon-Vico, Antonio; Leighton, Catherine; Madero, Sergio M.; Mak, Wai-ming; Mathew, Romina; Monserrat, Silvia Inés; Mujtaba, Bahaudin G.; Olivas-Lujan, Miguel R.; Polycroniou, Panagiotis; Sprigg, Christine A.; Axtell, Carolyn; Holman, David; Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Jaime A.; Nnedumm, Anthony Ugochukwu Obiajulu

Abstract

This paper is the first to explore the impact of culture on the acceptability of workplace bullying and to do so across a wide range of countries. Physically intimidating bullying is less acceptable than work related bullying both within groups of similar cultures and globally. Cultures with high performance orientation find bullying to be more acceptable while those with high future orientation find bullying to be less acceptable. A high humane orientation is associated with finding work related bullying to be less acceptable. Confucian Asia finds work-related bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa country clusters and finds physically intimidating bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo and Latin America country clusters. The differences in the acceptability of bullying with respect to these cultures are partially explained in terms of cultural dimensions.

Citation

Power, J. L., Brotheridge, C. M., Blenkinsopp, J., Bowes-Sperry, L., Bozionelos, N., Buzády, Z., Chuang, A., Drnevich, D., Garzon-Vico, A., Leighton, C., Madero, S. M., Mak, W.-M., Mathew, R., Monserrat, S. I., Mujtaba, B. G., Olivas-Lujan, M. R., Polycroniou, P., Sprigg, C. A., Axtell, C., Holman, D., …Nnedumm, A. U. O. (2013). Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents. Journal of business research, 66(3), 374-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.018

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 1, 2011
• Online Publication Date: Sep 7, 2011
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Deposit Date: Nov 13, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 13, 2014
• Journal: Journal of business research
• Print ISSN: 0148-2963
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 374-380
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.018
• Keywords: Marketing
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/469643
• Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296311002955
• Additional Information: Authors' accepted manuscript of article published in: Journal of business research, 2013, v.66, issue 3
• Contract Date: Nov 13, 2014