• Panguluri Pallavi

Workplace bullying is an implicit or explicit behaviour embodied with hostility, aggression, intimidation or any harm inflicted on an individual or group of individuals. It is said to be bullying if only these behaviours are persistent and repetitive, exhibited by an individual or a group in the context of an evolving and existing unequal power relationships in the workplace. Exposure to the prolonged bullying acts have deleterious effects on the target's health and may induce psychological, behavioural and physiological problems. Stress and depression are assumed to be the common problems among the targets of workplace bullying. The study was conducted on 300 private sector employees by administering Negative Acts Questionnaire to measure workplace exposure to bullying. Perceived stress scale and Major depression Inventory were administered to measure the employee’s levels of stress and depression respectively. The results concluded that workplace exposure to bullying was the predictor of the levels of perceived stress and depression among the employees. The results supported the common notion that workplace exposure to bullying had the tendency to impact the psychological disturbances among the employees.

Workplace bullying, Perceived stress, depression, and psychological problems

"The impact of being bullied at work on the levels of stress and depression among the employees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.147-151, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C24.pdf

"The impact of being bullied at work on the levels of stress and depression among the employees", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp147-151, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C24.pdf