Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to examine the negative effects of mobbing on work
performance and efficiency, which is implemented on the personnel working in public
and private medical institutions. A total of 2500 employees working in different
branches of public and private medical institutions in Istanbul participated in the
research. A two-part questionnaire was prepared for the participants. Data obtained
from the research were put through reliability test and Cronbach Alpha coefficient was
found 0.99. Data obtained were evaluated with t-test and one-way variance analysis,
and significant differences were found with tukey test. Following the research, it has
been concluded that mobbing affects the participants’ health negatively and this effect
differentiates according to the demographic characteristics. Moreover, it has been found
that mobbing has a negative effect on work performance and efficiency of the
participants and this effect differs again according to the demographic characteristics.
