Workplace Bullying its Role in Counterproductive Work Behaviors
A prospective study analyzed a sample of Hospitals in the Province of Karbala

The Council of the College of Administration and Economics/ University of Karbala as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the  Degree  of Master  of  Science  in  Business  Administration

By
Hussien Ali Abd Allah
Supervisor
Asst. Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Fahd al-Dulaimi

Abstract
The current study aims at identifying the effect of bullying in the workplace in counterproductive behaviors. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a hypothetical scheme was developed to determine the nature of the relationship between the independent variable and the behavior of the bullying in the workplace and the dependent variable.
In order to test the hypotheses of the study, the study was applied to a sample of nurses working in some hospitals in the holy city of Karbala (Imam Hussein Medical City, Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital, Karbala Children’s Hospital) in order to obtain information through a questionnaire prepared for this purpose. Distributed to a sample (576) representing the nurses in the three hospitals.
The study was based on a number of advanced statistical tools and methods through the spss V.25 program, such as Relative frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, one way Anova analysis, simple correlation coefficient, t-test, simple regression analysis, (R2), β-slope coefficient, and Kronbach Alfa.
In the light of the results obtained, a number of conclusions were reached. The most important of these was the presence of workplace bullying behavior in the investigated organizations, which contributed to the increase of counterproductive behaviors. In addition, In addition to the existence of a state of variation in the prevalence of bullying behavior in the workplace and counterproductive behaviors in hospitals appointed study
The study concluded with a set of recommendations concerning the variables of the study. The most important was the need for serious thinking by the administration in the hospitals examined in the treatment of the bullying situation experienced by the workers and trying to develop some procedures that can limit this counterproductive behavior.