Workplace mobbing and its relationship between job satisfaction and organizational trust study: A study on Turkish academicians

Mobbing is a complex subject which exists in employee occasion from the very beginning; but it is ignored by everybody who takes place in this process due to human nature. Everybody with no difference in culture, in sex, in age, in education level and in seniority can be subject to mobbing which has very serious results. Victims of mobbing usually show similar symptoms both psychological and physical. Mobbing as one of the main factors, negatively influences both social and work life. It is easy to understand how much damage it can cause on public life.The aim of this study is to examine the mutual relationship between the concepts of mobbing, organizational trust, and job satisfaction with a quantitative study which is applied to university academicians.In this study, quantitative methods is used to describe the mobbing at Turkish academic environment. The type of design is Hypothesis-Testing (explanatory). It is a correlational and cross-sectional research. Both face to face and online (through e-mail and online survey web sites) data collection techniques were used in the phase of collecting data. The study was realized with a sample size of 250. The respondents are recruited among the academicians of seven different universites which has two different types of organizations as state and foundation universities.According to the results of this research; mobbing affects the concepts of job satisfaction and organizational trust bidirectionally. In this framework, when job satisfaction gets better, the rate of mobbing decreases and as the job satisfaction gets worse, the rate of mobbing increases. Similarly, when organizational trust increases, the rate of mobbing decreases and as the organizational trust decreases, the rate of mobbing increases.