Title: Effects of Workplace Bullying on Work Engagement and Health:

The Mediating Role of Job Insecurity.

Journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017

Summary:

This study explained how the bullying effects the outcome and progress of a worker. It is
one of the few studies to treat job insecurity as an explanatory factor of the bullying-outcome
relationship. Job insecurity occurs through several interpersonal processes such as bullying;
making employees feel less valuable in their workplace.

By analysing the data from employees in Korean, it was explained that continuous
exposure to workplace abuse or bullying decreases the work engagement and deteriorates the
physical and mental health of employees because of job insecurity. This study contributes to
the literature and business practices by identifying an important underlying mechanism that
help us understand the relation between the exposure to workplace bullying and its health
impairing effects and job involvement.