Mobbing in the low-wage labor market in Iceland- : a comparison of imigrants and Icelanders

Abstract Workplace mobbing has previously been studied to some extent but little research has been made on Icelandic labor market. Findings from former studies have found that mobbing is a serious problem in today’s workplace because it has a highly negative effect on employee life. Negative Acts of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Malgorzata Katrín Molenda 1988-
Other Authors: Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Alþjóðaviðskipti
Meistaraprófsritgerðir
Einelti
Vinnustaðir
Innflytjendur
International business
Bullying
Workplace
Immigrants
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1946/25587
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Summary:Abstract Workplace mobbing has previously been studied to some extent but little research has been made on Icelandic labor market. Findings from former studies have found that mobbing is a serious problem in today’s workplace because it has a highly negative effect on employee life. Negative Acts of Questionnaire-Revised (NAQ-R scale) was used to analyze the frequency of mobbing in Iceland´s low-wage labor market. The purpose of this study was to find out if mobbing is also problem in the Icelandic labor market. Even though the results showed that immigrant employees are not at a higher risk to experience mobbing than Icelandic employees, personal character plays an important role regarding when and how people become targets of mobbing.

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