Evaluation of mobbing behaviour by municipal employees: A research on metropolitan municipality employees

Aim of this study is to detect how the mobbing has been perceived by a metropolitan municipality staff and how the attitudes identifed as mobbing by the staff has been evaluated by their superiors. One of the main purpoeses of this study is to analyse the negative workplace behaviors that are perceived as mobbing by the staff on the mobbing behaviors that committed hierarchically downwards, considering mobbing parameters, and to detect whether the superoiors perceive some behaviors as mobbing like their staff perceive. Similar expressions that have similar meaning with mobbing have been used on this study in order the staff to interprete mobbing behaviors more accurately and more consistently. It has been pursued that corelation of gender, age, marital status, number of brothers and sisters, total income of the familiy, job status, education level, term of employment and term of the current position information of survey participants with evaluation of their mobbing behaviors.The study has been composed of four chapters. Definition, scope, theoritical and historical progression and relation with similar terms of the mobbing term, and stages of mobbing process, typology of mobbing behaviors, personal characteristics of the violators committing mobbing and the victims subjected to mobbing and domestic and international studies have included in the first chapter. The social changes causing mobbing, some practises resulting to mobbing on corporations, impacts of mobbing on individuals, families and organizations, and methods of fight against mobbing and general information on the municipalities at which survey has been carried out has been given at the second chapter. Results of the survey on the mobbing perception of the municipality staff is explained at third chapter. Finally, conclusions and recommendations that could distribute to the literatüre was discussed at last chapter.