Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between workplace bullying (WB) and employee silence (ES) as well as its mechanism. This paper collects data from 322 employees of three Chinese enterprises in two waves, with a 2 months interval between the two waves. Moreover, this paper use...
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| description | The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between workplace bullying (WB) and employee silence (ES) as well as its mechanism. This paper collects data from 322 employees of three Chinese enterprises in two waves, with a 2 months interval between the two waves. Moreover, this paper uses confirmatory factor analysis, a bootstrapping mediation test, a simple slope test, and other methods to verify the hypothesis. We find that: (1) WB is positively correlated with ES; (2) psychological safety (PS) and affective commitment mediated the relationship between WB and ES, respectively, and these two variables have a chain mediating effect in the above relationship; and (3) a forgiveness climate moderates this chain mediating effect by weakening the negative impact of WB on PS. Our findings can effectively guide organizations to ultimately adjust their management style, pay attention to employees’ cognitive and emotional resources, and formulate some measures to curb WB in organizations. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-81eeaf2d16c04f90bea47c877bafb1972022-12-21T18:14:26ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-11-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.572236572236Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee SilenceXiwei Liu0Shenggang Yang1Zhu Yao2College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, ChinaThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between workplace bullying (WB) and employee silence (ES) as well as its mechanism. This paper collects data from 322 employees of three Chinese enterprises in two waves, with a 2 months interval between the two waves. Moreover, this paper uses confirmatory factor analysis, a bootstrapping mediation test, a simple slope test, and other methods to verify the hypothesis. We find that: (1) WB is positively correlated with ES; (2) psychological safety (PS) and affective commitment mediated the relationship between WB and ES, respectively, and these two variables have a chain mediating effect in the above relationship; and (3) a forgiveness climate moderates this chain mediating effect by weakening the negative impact of WB on PS. Our findings can effectively guide organizations to ultimately adjust their management style, pay attention to employees’ cognitive and emotional resources, and formulate some measures to curb WB in organizations.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572236/fullworkplace bullyingpsychological safetyaffective commitmentemployee silenceforgiveness climate |
| spellingShingle | Xiwei Liu Shenggang Yang Zhu Yao Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence Frontiers in Psychology workplace bullying psychological safety affective commitment employee silence forgiveness climate |
| title | Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence |
| title_full | Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence |
| title_fullStr | Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence |
| title_short | Silent Counterattack: The Impact of Workplace Bullying on Employee Silence |
| title_sort | silent counterattack the impact of workplace bullying on employee silence |
| topic | workplace bullying psychological safety affective commitment employee silence forgiveness climate |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572236/full |
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