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WORKPLACE BULLYING AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN MANUFACTURING FIRMS IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
This study examined the effect of workplace bullying and occupational stress in manufacturing firms in southeast Nigeria as the broad objective with a specific objective and a hypothesis accompanying it. Person-Environment (P-E) Fit Theory was used in anchoring the work. A survey research design was adopted by the study. The population of the study consisted of 798 employees of 25 manufacturing firms from the five southeastern states in Nigeria. A sample size of 259 was gotten by the application of Krejcie and Morgan’s 1970 sample size formula. The method of data collection was primary, with a structured questionnaire being the instrument and was tested for reliability and validity. The data collected were analyzed using correlation analysis and the hypothesis was tested at a 5% level of significance. Results revealed that there is a statistically significant relationship between work-related bullying and occupational stress among workers in manufacturing firms in southeast Nigeria (r = 918, P-value < 0.05). The study, therefore, concluded that workplace bullying has a relationship with occupational stress. Hence, it was recommended that the management of the manufacturing firms should know the threshold of employees’ tolerance, so as not to push them to the extent of the employee seeing it as bullying, and therefore, make them more stressed.
Keywords: Workplace Bullying, Work-Related Bullying, Stress, Occupation Stress, Manufacturing Firms and Southeast Nigeria.