Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany: Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources

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Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany : Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources. / Conway, Paul Maurice; Burr, Hermann; Rose, Uwe; Clausen, Thomas; Balducci, Cristian.

In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 18, No. 20, 10805, 01.10.2021.

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Conway, PM, Burr, H, Rose, U, Clausen, T & Balducci, C 2021, 'Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany: Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 20, 10805. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010805

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Conway, P. M., Burr, H., Rose, U., Clausen, T., & Balducci, C. (2021). Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany: Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20), [10805]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010805

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Conway PM, Burr H, Rose U, Clausen T, Balducci C. Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany: Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 Oct 1;18(20). 10805. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010805

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Conway, Paul Maurice ; Burr, Hermann ; Rose, Uwe ; Clausen, Thomas ; Balducci, Cristian. / Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany : Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources. In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 ; Vol. 18, No. 20.

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title = "Antecedents of workplace bullying among employees in Germany: Five-year lagged effects of job demands and job resources",
abstract = "Objectives: The aim of the present study was to examine the long-term association of job demands and job resources with self-reported exposure to workplace bullying in a representative sample of employees in Germany. Methods: We analysed a nation-wide representative cohort of employees working in the same workplace with a 5-year follow-up (S-MGA; N = 1637). The study contained self-reported measures of psychosocial working conditions, including work pace, amount of work, influence at work, role clarity and quality of leadership, and workplace bullying, and of organisational factors, including organisational restructuring and layoffs. Results: After controlling for bullying and occupational level at baseline, higher baseline levels of organisational restructuring (OR 1.73; 95% CI 1.10–2.70), work pace (1.30; 95% CI 1.01–1.66), and amount of work (1.55; 95% CI 1.21–1.99), and lower baseline levels of influence at work (0.70; 95% CI 0.55–0.90) and quality of leadership (1.99; 0.64; 95% CI 0.50–0.82), were associated with an elevated risk of workplace bullying at follow-up. In all, 90% of cases of self-reported workplace bullying could be attributed to these factors. Conclusions: The study suggests that employees reporting higher demands and lower re-sources, as well as organisational factors such as restructuring, are at a higher long-term risk of being targets of workplace bullying. Interventions aimed at preventing workplace bullying could benefit from a focus on psychosocial working conditions and organisational factors.",
keywords = "Job demands-resources model, Prospective study, Psychosocial working con-ditions, S-MGA, Workplace bullying",
author = "Conway, {Paul Maurice} and Hermann Burr and Uwe Rose and Thomas Clausen and Cristian Balducci",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: The 2011/12 and 2017 rounds of the S-MGA study were funded internally by the BAuA (project no. F 2250 and F 2384). This paper was written as part of the project “Longitudinal associations between working and employment conditions, burnout and depressive symptoms” at the BAuA (internally funded project no. F 2460). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.",
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language = "English",
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AU - Conway, Paul Maurice

AU - Burr, Hermann

AU - Rose, Uwe

AU - Clausen, Thomas

AU - Balducci, Cristian

N1 - Funding Information: Funding: The 2011/12 and 2017 rounds of the S-MGA study were funded internally by the BAuA (project no. F 2250 and F 2384). This paper was written as part of the project “Longitudinal associations between working and employment conditions, burnout and depressive symptoms” at the BAuA (internally funded project no. F 2460). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

PY - 2021/10/1

Y1 - 2021/10/1

N2 - Objectives: The aim of the present study was to examine the long-term association of job demands and job resources with self-reported exposure to workplace bullying in a representative sample of employees in Germany. Methods: We analysed a nation-wide representative cohort of employees working in the same workplace with a 5-year follow-up (S-MGA; N = 1637). The study contained self-reported measures of psychosocial working conditions, including work pace, amount of work, influence at work, role clarity and quality of leadership, and workplace bullying, and of organisational factors, including organisational restructuring and layoffs. Results: After controlling for bullying and occupational level at baseline, higher baseline levels of organisational restructuring (OR 1.73; 95% CI 1.10–2.70), work pace (1.30; 95% CI 1.01–1.66), and amount of work (1.55; 95% CI 1.21–1.99), and lower baseline levels of influence at work (0.70; 95% CI 0.55–0.90) and quality of leadership (1.99; 0.64; 95% CI 0.50–0.82), were associated with an elevated risk of workplace bullying at follow-up. In all, 90% of cases of self-reported workplace bullying could be attributed to these factors. Conclusions: The study suggests that employees reporting higher demands and lower re-sources, as well as organisational factors such as restructuring, are at a higher long-term risk of being targets of workplace bullying. Interventions aimed at preventing workplace bullying could benefit from a focus on psychosocial working conditions and organisational factors.

AB - Objectives: The aim of the present study was to examine the long-term association of job demands and job resources with self-reported exposure to workplace bullying in a representative sample of employees in Germany. Methods: We analysed a nation-wide representative cohort of employees working in the same workplace with a 5-year follow-up (S-MGA; N = 1637). The study contained self-reported measures of psychosocial working conditions, including work pace, amount of work, influence at work, role clarity and quality of leadership, and workplace bullying, and of organisational factors, including organisational restructuring and layoffs. Results: After controlling for bullying and occupational level at baseline, higher baseline levels of organisational restructuring (OR 1.73; 95% CI 1.10–2.70), work pace (1.30; 95% CI 1.01–1.66), and amount of work (1.55; 95% CI 1.21–1.99), and lower baseline levels of influence at work (0.70; 95% CI 0.55–0.90) and quality of leadership (1.99; 0.64; 95% CI 0.50–0.82), were associated with an elevated risk of workplace bullying at follow-up. In all, 90% of cases of self-reported workplace bullying could be attributed to these factors. Conclusions: The study suggests that employees reporting higher demands and lower re-sources, as well as organisational factors such as restructuring, are at a higher long-term risk of being targets of workplace bullying. Interventions aimed at preventing workplace bullying could benefit from a focus on psychosocial working conditions and organisational factors.

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KW - Prospective study

KW - Psychosocial working con-ditions

KW - S-MGA

KW - Workplace bullying

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U2 - 10.3390/ijerph182010805

DO - 10.3390/ijerph182010805

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