The effects of mobbing on workers: A practice study on Turkish information technologies sector

Our world which has been developing since the Industrial Revolution, hosts many innovations and disparities. Life standarts of people are improving with technological innovations and those innovations are making their life easier. Yet, these permanent change and innovations can cause some negative situations. Because of long working hours, increased rivalry, intense work pressure and stress, workers do not have leisure time and they suffer psychologically. Psychological violence must be understood well. It is intentional immoral behaviors that are shown systematically, directly or indirectly, aspiring a torture towards victims and their health, their career. This study aims to establish how psychological violence affect productivity of Information Technologies sector workers in Istanbul and effects of quitting their jobs. It also aims to be helpful for employers, managers,human research experts,syndicates and associations with regard to prevent from mobbing. Mobbing, Psychological Voilence, not only hurts workers as physical and psychological but also it blocks their will of working and responsibility. This study is necessary to show mobbing in Information Technologies sector. In this study, a questionnaire takes place after theoretical informations. It consists of three parts as demographic versions, mobbing, productivity, and thirty-eight questions. In first part, there are questions about age, sex, education, seniority and experience of participants. Second part, the questions are about social relationships, reputation, status and health. In the final part, the participants answered the questions about their performance at the work. In order to evaluate Mobbing, LIPT (Leymann Inventory of Psychological Terror) was used and it was prepared as five-likert scale. According to questionnaire, direct relationship between productivity and psychological violence was established. As an addition to this, women face with mobbing more than men in Information Technologies sector. Also, it was established that productivity and seniority is directly proportional according to the questionnaire. Ineffectiveness is shown among mostly 1-3 years and at least 10 years and more experienced workers. Furthermore, age is another factor for productivity. Mobbing affects young workers more than elder ones.