Abstract—
Workplace bullying as a concept, to a large extent,
has generated a lot of debate and there has been no general
agreement on the definition of workplace bullying. This study
aims at exploring and analyzing the role that gender
categorization plays in bullying relations. That is, the
significance of gender in explaining employees’ exposure to
workplace bullying, the forms of bullying behaviors and
comparing women’s exposure to workplace bullying to men.
The rationale for investigating gender is explained using the
theory of Social Identity as a theoretical background. This
study relates to how being a minority or dominant gender
group within the organisation can be a vulnerability factor or
the reason why a particular gender is more exposed to bullying
in the workplace than the other. This paper is based on
empirical investigation conducted on 650 employees across
various institutions and sectors in Nigeria. A test of
significance differences is used to investigate the relationship
between gender and negative behaviors. The analysis revealed
that both male and female experience various forms of bullying,
and there is no significant difference between male and female
respondents in terms of their exposure to bullying. That is,
both genders are equally exposed to bullying in the workplace.
Thus, this paper concludes by recommending that any form of
workplace bullying should be completely eschewed and
discouraged.
Index Terms—
Workplace bullying, gender, male, female,
negative act questionnaire.
Oluwakemi Adewumi and Rosemary Danesi are with University of
Lagos, Nigeria (e-mail: oaadewumi@unilag.edu.ng,
rdanesi@unilag.edu.ng).
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Cite:
Oluwakemi Adewumi and Rosemary Danesi, "
Gender: A Vulnerability Factor or Not? Exploring and Investigating Workplace Bullying in Nigeria," Journal of Economics, Business and Management vol. 5, no.10, pp.
324-330 , 2017.