Labour market affiliation among non-bullied colleagues at work units with reported bullying.
AIM
This study investigates if non-bullied employees in Work units (WUs) where bullying occur, are more prone to leave the WUs than employees in WUs with no bullying, and if the prevalence of workplace bullying had an impact on leaving the WUs. Leaving the workplace was defined by unemployment or change of workplace at follow-up.


METHODS
We had data from 8326 Danish public health invited employees from 302 WUs. Of these 3036 responded to a questionnaire on working conditions and health in 2007. WUs were classified into three categories of WUs: (1) no bullying (0% bullied), (2) moderate prevalence of bullying (< 10% bullied), and (3) high prevalence of bullying (≥ 10% bullied). Bullied respondents were used to classify the WUs and excluded in the analyses.


RESULTS
We found odds ratios (ORs) for unemployment 1 year later of 1.27 [95% CI 0.69-2.37] in WUs with moderate prevalence of bullying and 1.38 [95% CI 0.85-2.23] among employed in WUs with high prevalence of bullying, adjusted for size of WUs, age, sex, and job category. For turnover 1 year later the ORs were 1.27 [95% CI 0.78-2.15] and 1.46 [95% CI 0.99-2.15] in WUs with moderate and high prevalence of bullying, respectively.


CONCLUSION
We did not find that non-bullied employees leave the WUs with moderate and high prevalence of bullying more than employees in WUs with no bullying behaviour 1 year later. Leaving the workplace tended to be higher among employees in WUs with high prevalence of bullying compared to no and moderate bullying.
['Hansen|Åse Marie|ÅM|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4075-3918', 'Grynderup|Matias Brødsgaard|MB|', 'Clausen|Thomas|T|', 'Bonde|Jens Peter|JP|', 'Garde|Anne Helene|AH|', 'Kaerlev|Linda|L|', 'Kolstad|Henrik A|HA|', 'Hogh|Annie|A|']
D058445:Bullying D003718:Denmark D005260:Female D006801:Humans D008297:Male D008875:Middle Aged D016017:Odds Ratio D010563:Personnel Turnover D014478:Unemployment D017132:Workplace
Non-bullied colleagues Work units Bullying Unemployment Turnover