The Effect of Workplace Bulling on Turnover Intentions: The Mediating Role of Workplace Ostracism and Workplace Gossip

Abstract

This study seeks to provide a practical and theoretical framework about the effect of workplace bulling on turnover intentions and indirect through workplace ostracism and workplace gossip has been building the theoretical framework, according to the four variables of the study and that its light has been the development of the basic assumptions for this study. And it applied and tested in this study the public Engineering sector in Sudan represented in the Northern State Water & Sanitation Authority. The questionnaire was used as data collection method for this study and the sample size was amounted to (231) individuals working in the lower management of the authority. The path analysis software (Amos V.24) was used to test the hypotheses of the study. The results showed that the direct positive effect of workplace bulling on turnover intentions, as well as demonstrated the indirect positive effect of workplace bulling on turnover intentions through the mediating variables workplace ostracism and workplace gossip. In the light of study results, a set of recommendations for the Authority was suggested to reduce behaviors of bulling, ostracism and gossip in the workplace, furthermore decrease turnover intentions.