Aggression level of the employees subjected to mobbing: The differences related to individual and working life

Abstract

This study attempts to explore mobbing victims' aggressive responses and to determine how these aggressive responses differentiate based on individual and working life differences. A survey instrument related to aggressive responses to the mobbing and demographics was administered on 291 public and private sector employees, who reported to be subjected to mobbing. As a result of the analysis on the data obtained from the survey instrument, it was found that nearly 88 % of employees could resort to four types of aggressive responses described as insidious, offended, explicit, and imputed to organization. It was concluded that employees exhibit offended responses when subjected to mobbing against possibilities to maintain their personal reputation, exhibit explicit responses when subjected to mobbing against physical health, exhibit the responses imputed to organization when subjected to mobbing against possibilities to maintain their social contacts and exhibit insidious responses when subjected to any of these mobbing types excluding mobbing against possibilities to maintain their personal reputation.