Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents

Jacqueline L. Power; Céleste Brotheridge; John Blenkinsopp; Lynn Bowes-Sperry; Nikos Bozionelos; Zoltán Buzády; Aichia Chuang; Dawn Drnevich; Antonio Garzon-Vico; Catherine Leighton; Sergio M. Madero; Wai-ming Mak; Romina Mathew; Silvia Inés Monserrat; Bahaudin G. Mujtaba; Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan; Panagiotis Polycroniou; Christine A. Sprigg; Carolyn Axtell; David Holman; Jaime A. Ruiz-Gutiérrez; Anthony Ugochukwu Obiajulu Nnedumm

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.018

Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents

Jacqueline L. Power, Céleste Brotheridge, John Blenkinsopp, Lynn Bowes-Sperry, Nikos Bozionelos, Zoltán Buzády, Aichia Chuang, Dawn Drnevich, Antonio Garzon-Vico, Catherine Leighton, Sergio M. Madero, Wai-ming Mak, Romina Mathew, Silvia Inés Monserrat, Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, Miguel R. Olivas-Lujan, Panagiotis Polycroniou, Christine A. Sprigg, Carolyn Axtell, David HolmanJaime A. Ruiz-Gutiérrez, Anthony Ugochukwu Obiajulu Nnedumm

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This paper is the first to explore the impact of culture on the acceptability of workplace bullying and to do so across a wide range of countries. Physically intimidating bullying is less acceptable than work related bullying both within groups of similar cultures and globally. Cultures with high performance orientation find bullying to be more acceptable while those with high future orientation find bullying to be less acceptable. A high humane orientation is associated with finding work related bullying to be less acceptable. Confucian Asia finds work-related bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa country clusters and finds physically intimidating bullying to be more acceptable than the Anglo and Latin America country clusters. The differences in the acceptability of bullying with respect to these cultures are partially explained in terms of cultural dimensions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374-380
Journal	Journal of Business Research
Volume	66
Issue number	3
Early online date	7 Sept 2011
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.018
Publication status	Published - 3 Mar 2013

Keywords

Workplace bullying
Cross-cultural differences
Performance orientation
Future orientation
Humane orientation

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Power, J. L., Brotheridge, C., Blenkinsopp, J., Bowes-Sperry, L., Bozionelos, N., Buzády, Z., Chuang, A., Drnevich, D., Garzon-Vico, A., Leighton, C., Madero, S. M., Mak, W., Mathew, R., Monserrat, S. I., Mujtaba, B. G., Olivas-Lujan, M. R., Polycroniou, P., Sprigg, C. A., Axtell, C., ... Nnedumm, A. U. O. (2013). Acceptability of workplace bullying: A comparative study on six continents. Journal of Business Research, 66(3), 374-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.08.018

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