Relation with the perception of employees' psychological harassment (mobbing) and work-life balance: A case of Alanya

The main purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between mobbing behaviors and work-life balance of the employees oriented in workplaces. Within the scope of this aim, a literature study on psychological harassment and work-life balance has been carried out, introducing the concept of psychological harassment in the first part and explaining the concept of work-life balance in the second part. In the third part of the study, 337 employees working in the five-star hotel in Alanya region were reached with questionnaires and tried to measure psychological harassment perceptions, work and private life balances. The findings of this study that using descriptive analysis and canonical correlation analysis are as follows; the employees were not exposed to psychological harassment and it was determined that there was a meaningful relation between the psychological harassment and work-life balances. However, 26% of the variance of the psychological harassment levels was explained by the work-life balance variables, 16% of the work-life balance variables group of variance was explained by the variables of the variable set of psychological harassment levels. According to the this result, the independent variable set (psychological harassment levels) was found to have a higher explanation rate of dependent variable set (work life balance). The most important contribution to the psychological harassment variable is the attack on life and work quality; the most important contribution to the work life balance variable is the effect of work on personal life. In other words, attacks to life and work quality are most effective in psychological harassment, work's effects to private life are more important in providing work life balance than other dimensions