Bullying as a Predictor with Personality Traits as a Moderation of Employees’ Burnout at the Workplace in Lebanese Corporations
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2022
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The workplace can impose significant pressures on employees that can lead to unprecedented outcomes that have significant impact on their psychological well-being. Studies have suggested that workplace bullying is one of the pressures faced by employees, whereby they are exposed to several offenses, physical and verbal. Investigations in that regard have shown that workplace bullying is an indicator of burnout in employees, which is a work-related stress characterized by physical or emotional tiredness, as well as a sense of diminished achievability and self-worth. Moreover, literature has briefly attempted to integrate personality factors into understanding how it affects the relationship between workplace bullying and burnout. To further extend the research to Lebanon, the study at hand investigated personality as a moderator between workplace bullying and burnout, specifically the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion. In a form that combined three questionnaires - Maslach Burnout Inventory, Negative Acts Questionnaire, and Big Five inventory – data was collected from 115 employees in diverse Lebanese corporations. Using hierarchal multiple regression, the results found that workplace bullying was directly related to burnout. However, neuroticism and extraversion were not found to be moderators between workplace bullying and burnout.
Nevertheless, an interesting finding highlighted how neuroticism had a significant effect on burnout and extraversion had a significant negative relationship with workplace bullying. Despite the limitations accompanied with the small sample size, this is the first study to discuss this complicated relationship in Lebanon. Further research should focus on the relationship between workplace bullying and personality factors.
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Nassar, D. G. (2022). Bullying as a Predictor with Personality Traits as a Moderation of Employees’ Burnout at the Workplace in Lebanese Corporations (SBS thesis, Haigazian University)