Aggressive behaviours in organizations: a qualitative research

Aggressive behaviour related with organizational psychology is among the important problem of our current business world. Especially competition and the production perception with low cost that increased with affects of globalization, economic developments and changes existing nowadays has increased the feeling of injustice and trend of violence among the employees. This situation caused increasing of perception level and frequency of behaviours like mobbing, sexual harrasment, sabotage, organizational gossip and employee theft which are amid the aggression behaviours or antisocial behaviours. Organizations, in this expeditious development and changing are in danger with the aggression behaviours that decrease business sinergy, energy and performance.Aggression in business is just a new work area, so it is not a concept which is used so much and given importance. Aggression behaviours from different point of views, have destructive affects to employees, organizations and so to the community. The aim of my study is, to describe the types of aggressive behaviours and by explaining the reasons of these aggressive behaviours to make a contribution to the literature for the further works that will be held later.The aggressive behaviour types that are held in my study sexual harassment, mobbing, sabotage, organizational gossip and employee theft are most met aggressive behaviour types in businesses. As a result of the literature search, we meet with the most widespread reasons of these aggressive behaviour types which are organizotinal conflict, organizational stress, frustration, lack of emotional intelligence and organizational injustice. These concepts are investigated in the study as a reason of the aggressive behaviours. Knowing the types of aggressive behaviours and learning their reasons will make a great contribution to the organizations, managers and employees that suffered a loss because of these aggressive behaviours. So in this study the topics related with the management of aggressive behaviours are emphasized.