PERSONALITY PROFILING OF BULLIES AND TARGETS IN WORKPLACE BULLYING INCIDENCE
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Feb 23, 2019
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Bullying, Bully, Target, Five Factor Model, Personality Traits, Personality Profiling
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Beware, workplace bullying is a key hazard that lobs substantial negative effects on entire aspects of organizations. It may seem to be benign in its beginning, but becomes uncontrollable when triggers. Bullies, targets and bystanders are associated parties in bullying incidence. However, bullies and targets seek attention due to their direct involvement. Studies require their personality profiling that helps in developing and implementing customized anti-bullying interventions. This study has identified twenty five bullies, one hundred and twenty six targets and profiled them according to big five factor model of trait theory of personality. The results of exploratory analysis revealed that the bullies had every type of personality trait except agreeableness. On the contrary, results revealed that every type of personality was the target of bullying incidence. However, targets had a dominant trait of agreeableness. Findings of current study provide substantial insights to the scholars and practitioners.
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