SUBMIT ARTICLE
ISSN: 2782- 893X
eISSN: 2799-0664

Basic Education Teachers and Workplace Bullying: Experiences In a Public Elementary School

IJAMS Publisher

AUTHOR(S)

IRNELYN G. BUHAYAN



ABSTRACT

—— Work place bullying when left unchecked would cost high both in terms of human and material capital. Teachers who are bullied exhibit certain behavioral patterns. The study aimed at determining whether there is correlation between the respondents’ personal attributes and their perspectives on the existence of factors antecedent to workplace bullying. It also determined the existence of a formal organization structure to prevent bullying and determine if there is a need for training and seminar on workplace bullying. By using questionnaire survey as a tool to gather data, the study measured, through their” lens” four factors antecedent to workplace bullying. The study area is in Daliao, Toril, Davao City at Sta. Clara Elementary School. The study revealed that there is a weak correlation between the respondents’ personal attributes and descriptors of workplace bullying. Except on the presence of injustice in promotion where majority of elementary and secondary school teachers considered present in the workplace. The factor of injustice in promotion is culture laden. In general, factors leading to workplace bullying is not rampant in the respondents’ workplaces. But the organization is not completely free from behaviors antecedent to workplace bullying. Majority of the respondents considered that formal organizational structure to prevent workplace bullying is established likewise majority claimed that they have not experienced attending a school sponsored training and seminar on workplace bullying. Keywords — Workplace Bullying, Teachers, Public Elementary School, Correlation