Relationship between Organizational Culture and Workplace Bullying among Korean Nurses.
PURPOSE To identify the relationship between organizational culture and experience of workplace bullying among Korean nurses. METHODS Participants were 298 hospital nurses in Busan, South Korea. We assessed nursing organizational culture and workplace bullying among nurses using structured questionnaires from July 1 through August 15, 2014. RESULTS Most participants considered their organizational culture as hierarchy oriented (45.5% followed by relation oriented (36.0% innovation oriented (10.4% and task oriented (8.1% According to the operational bullying criteria, the prevalence of workplace bullying was 15.8% A multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the odds of being a victim of bullying were 2.58 times as high among nurses in a hierarchy oriented culture as among nurses in a relation oriented culture [95% confidence interval (1.12, 5.94) CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that the types of nursing organizational culture are related to workplace bullying in Korean nurses. Further research is needed to develop interventions that can foster relation oriented cultures to prevent workplace bullying in nurses.
Asian nursing research