<p>Workplace
bullying is a major global issue which has received a lot of recognition
because of its negative effects on victims’ health and work productivity. There
have been many attempts to mitigate the effects of workplace bullying, leading
researchers to extensively study the phenomenon in various contexts and
relationships. Information on workplace bullying in the academic context,
precisely relationships between academic advisors and graduate student
advisees, is however, lacking. This study aimed at filling in the gap by
seeking information about communicative behaviors from advisors that graduate advisees
characterized as bullying, and common responses graduate advisees resorted to
in the face of adversity. We also sought to understand why advisees may have responded
to maltreatment in specific ways. We, therefore, proposed a working model which
hypothesized a relationship between advisor negative acts, commitment levels of
advisees, and advisee responses. Using Amazon’s Mechanical (MTurk) to recruit
our sample, participants filled out a survey which included a few demographic
questions, the revised version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R) to
measure advisor negative acts, the Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVLN) typology
to measure advisee responses, and the Investment Model Scale (IMS) to measure
advisee commitment levels to the work relationship with advisors. We verified
the reliability and validity of the scales adopted for this study and ran some
correlation and mediation analyses to answer our research questions and test
our hypotheses. From our findings, we learned that most advisees reported personal
insults occurring more frequently in their work relationships with advisors.
Advisees also reported a high commitment to the work relationships with their
advisors, despite maltreatment, and often responded by adopting the voice or
neglect strategy. Findings from this exploratory study imply there is more
information to be sought on workplace bullying between advisees and advisors in
academic contexts.</p>
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/15079170 |
| Date | 30 July 2021 |
| Creators | Theodora L Amuah (11205984) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/GRADUATE_STUDENTS_PERCEPTIONS_AND_RESPONSES_TO_BULLYING_FROM_ACADEMIC_ADVISORS/15079170 |
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