Mobbing at working life (A search in industry in Sakarya)

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the related sectors and mobbing, mobbing behaviours, causes of mobbing for employees and organizations.This thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, definitions of mobbing, the mobber and victim portrait, mobbing methots are given. The second part of the thesis is about mobbing at working life, effects of mobbing on victim and organization, mobbing law in different countries and Turkey. In the third part, the prevalence of mobbing and sector relationship is discussed.In accordance with the aim of the study, questionnaire and interwiew methods were used for testing the relationship between the related sectors and mobbing. The data to be in this study were obtained from 687 white and blue collar workers in four different sectors, fourteen different companies in textile, automotive conponent industry, metal-steel and machine industry in Sakarya. A questionnaire consisting of 55 items was administered to white and blue collar employees. Resuts were tested through statistical analysis like frequency analysis, crosstabs and Chi-Square tests in SPSS 10 for Windows program depending on the types of the variables. According the test results, it is found that there is a significant relation between the prevalence of mobbing and sectors. It is seen that, mobbing behaviours are executed mostly both managers and supervisors. There was some difference about the most encounted mobbing behaviours by sector type. It is seen that, there is group and downward mobbing type in the related sectors. It is found that there is a significant relation between the corporate governance and mobbing.Mobbing victims are affected severely from the psychological, physical and social aspects and evaluated working environments negatively. Tendency of leaving work, low productivity, low performance are also high among mobbing victims. All those negative results cause enormous amount of financial and psychological harm not only for individuals but also for organizatoins and communities.