Who Will Be Bullied？The View of Subordinates’ Competence and Power in Organizations

• Main Authors: Szu-Chia Kuei, 歸思佳
• Other Authors: Chien-Chih Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30640626988056822982

碩士 === 中原大學 === 心理學研究所 === 100 === Workplace bullying is a cross-cultural and cross-sectional phenomenon. Past researches had emphasized on the impact of leadership and leaders’ characteristics on bullying, however, few researches had focused on what kind of subordinates will be bullied more possibly. The goal of this study is to explore the effects of subordinates’ competence and power on workplace bullying by using superior-subordinate similarity, perceived power distance and perceived performance orientation as moderators. The findings are as follows: (1) Subordinates with low competence would be bullied more possibly; (2) Power of subordinates would have no effect on bullying; (3) Subordinates having lower competence but higher deep-level similarity with superior would suffer from less possibility of being bullied, but surface-level similarity would have no effect; (4) Subordinates having high power but lower deep-level similarity with superior would suffer from more possibility of being bullied, but surface-level similarity would have no effect; (5) High perceived power distance would increase the possibility of being bullied of subordinates with higher power, but would not influence the relationship between competence and bullying; (6) Perceived performance orientation would not influence the effect of competence or power on bullying.