The effect of mobbing (workplace bullying) on work alienation of which academicians are exposured

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of exposure of mobbing and work alienation on the academicians working in Akdeniz University and to put forward the effect of mobbing on work alienation. The data obtained from a population composed of 346 academic staff working at various faculty, collage and vocational collage through the academic year of 2007-2008.A questionnaire, composed of three sections, was used to collect the data. In the first section, participants? personal information was given. In the second section, ?Negative Acts Questionnaire -Revised? and in the third section, ?Work Alienation Scale? were used.Percentage, frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression, t-test, one-way ANOVA for independent samples, and in case the assumptions of parametric tests were not satisfied, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis-H tests were used to analyze the data.The consequences of this study reveal significant differences between work related mobbing as a sub dimension of mobbing and age; between work related mobbing and the units and title. There are significant differences between powerlessness and meaningless as sub dimensions of work alienation and age and title; between faculty alienation and field and marital status; between powerlessness and the working unit. According to the results of correlation analysis, there is positive and medium level significance between powerlessness, meaningless, isolation and work related mobbing, personal mobbing. A significant relation has been observed on positive and lower level between mobbing and attacks on dignity and powerlessness, meaningless, isolation as sub dimensions of work alienation. Nevertheless no significant relation has been observed between sub dimensions of mobbing behaviors and faculty alienation as a sub dimension of work alienation. According to the regression analysis results, personal mobbing, work related mobbing, attacks on dignity as sub dimensions of mobbing have a significant effect on work alienation and powerlessness, meaningless, isolation as sub dimensions of work alienation.Key words: Mobbing, work alienation, lecturers, academic organizations.