Bullying in Workplace among Welding and Fabrication Instructors in TertiaryInstitutions in Kogi State

Abstract

The study was carried out to determine the bullying in workplace among welding and fabrication instructors in tertiary institutions in Kogi State. Two research questions guided the study while one null hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population for the study was 84 welding and fabrication instructors which made up of 65 male and 19 female instructors in all the tertiary institutions in Kogi State, Nigeria. There was no sampling because of the manageable size of the population. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to face validation by three experts in the Department of Industrial Technical Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Cronbach alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of instrument and 0.83 reliability coefficient value was obtained for the causes of workplace bullying experience among welding and fabrication instructors and 0.89 was for the effects of workplace bullying on output and productivity among welding and fabrication instructors while the overall reliability coefficient value was 0.85. The data collected were analyzed using Mean to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significances. The findings of the study on research questions revealed: (i) 18 causes of workplace bullying experience among welding and fabrication instructors in tertiary institutions and (ii) 12 impacts of workplace bullying on output and productivity among welding and fabrication instructors in tertiary institutions in Kogi State. The findings of the study on hypotheses tested revealed that: (i) there was no significant difference in the mean responses of male and female instructors of welding and fabrication on the organizational consequences of workplace bullying in tertiary institutions and (ii) there was no significant difference in the mean responses of male and female instructors of welding and fabrication on the impact of workplace bullying on the output and productivity in tertiary institutions in Kogi State. Recommendations include that: (i) welding and fabrication instructors should be educated by the supervisors about how workplace bullying can affect their performance and productivity of the entire institutions, (ii) Government and administrators of tertiary institutions should organize workshops and seminars for instructors on strategies to cope with workplace bullying, (iii) Government and administrators should formulate policies to checkmate workplace bullying among welding and fabrication instructors.