Social support as buffer for workplace negative acts of professional public sector employees in Vietnam

Much has been known about negative outcomes of workplace bullying in public sectors in low power distance contexts like the UK, USA, and Australia. Little is known about workplace bullying in non-Western contexts characterized by high power distance, bureaucracy, and collectivism. This study advance...

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Published in:Public management review 2020-01, Vol.22 (1), p.6-26
Main Authors: Nguyen, Diep T. N., Teo, Stephen T. T., Dinh, Khai Cong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bullying
Bureaucracy
Collectivism
Conservation
Power
Public sector
Social support
Work
work engagement
Workplace bullying
Workplaces
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Summary:Much has been known about negative outcomes of workplace bullying in public sectors in low power distance contexts like the UK, USA, and Australia. Little is known about workplace bullying in non-Western contexts characterized by high power distance, bureaucracy, and collectivism. This study advances Conservation of Resource (COR) theory with empirical evidence that the acquisition of social support buffered the indirect impact of bullying on work engagement in a sample of 207 Vietnamese public sector professionals. This research suggests the provision of contextual resources is critically important to enhance employee positive experience of work in the face of workplace bullying.
ISSN:1471-9037
1471-9045
DOI:10.1080/14719037.2019.1638438