The Effect of Mobbing on Organizational Alienation in Hospital Enterprises: An Application in Afyonkarahisar

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to put forward the effect of mobbing perception on the levels of organizational alienation. The sample of the study is composed of 403 health professionals (nurse, doctor etc.) working at the different hospital in the city center of Afyonkarihar providence. As data collecting technique, a questionnaire including the Lehman's mobbing scale and Mottaz's organizational alienation scale is used. To analyze this data set, descriptive statistics (frequency- percentile distribution, mean, standard deviation) t test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), regression and correlation analysis are used. As a result of the study, its determined that health professionals' mobbing perceptions is very low and the organizational alienation levels are less than the medium level. On the other hand, a positive and medium correlation between the mobbing perceptions and organizational alienation is found out and an increase with the coefficient of 0.875 on organizational alienation is determined for a 1-unit increase of mobbing perception, related with the result of a regression analysis.