Impacts of Workplace Surveys on Workplace Bullying

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Human Resource: What are impacts of workplace surveys on workplace bullying
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Table of Contents
1. Theme..........................................................................................................................................2
1.1 Brief overview of the literature..............................................................................................2
1.2 Evidence needed to explore and address the research question............................................2
2. Research method..........................................................................................................................3
2.1 Qualitative data......................................................................................................................3
2.2 Quantitative data....................................................................................................................5
3. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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1. Theme
The main focus of this report is analyzing the impacts of workplace surveys on workplace
bullying. The selected organization is KPMG, which a cyber bullying case was occurred about
the case of sexual abuse. A case was filed against the senior colleague in KPMG.
1.1 Brief overview of the literature
Harrington, Warren and Rayner (2015) stated that workplace bullying is a pattern of
mistreatment from the colleagues in workplace which can cause physical as well as emotional
harm to the victim. Taniguchi et al. (2016) argued that the workplace bullying is consisted of
non-verbal, physical abuse as well as humiliation. In the cause of KPMG, the workplace bullying
was being accounted as having been by somebody who has influence over the victim. Lyons and
Coyle (2016) discussed that negative effects of bullying is not only limited to targeted
individuals but it can cause a decline in the employee’s morale and there is change into the
organizational culture. In terms of the gender, the workplace bullying is caused among the
women, therefore they are at higher risk to become a target.
1.2 Evidence needed to explore and address the research question
The research question for this plan is: What are impacts of workplace surveys on
workplace bullying. The evidence related to the cases of workplace bullying for selected
organization is selected to explore and address the research question. It leads to reduce the
workplace bullying by handling the situations properly. The evidences are gathered from the
sources related to selected research topic.

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2. Research method
2.1 Qualitative data
The qualitative research is exploratory research which is used to understand the reasons
and motivations behind conducting the research study. It provides insights to the problems and it
helps to develop ideas related to quantitative research. Qualitative research is utilized to find out
the trends in opinions in addition to dive in depth in the research problems (Karatuna 2015). This
research method is included of unstructured and semi-structured methods. The methods are
included of focus groups, interview along with observations. The sample for this study is small.
The research is involved with collection, examination along with explanation of the data which
are not reduced to numbers (D’Cruz, Noronha and Lutgen-Sandvik 2018). The data is being
related to social world, concepts as well as people behaviors in it.
Strengths: The qualitative study provides such data which is descriptive and it allows
capturing the snapshot of the user population. The qualitative research is involved to gain insider
view of the field (Lyons and Coyle 2016). It permits the researcher to find out the problems
which are missed. It plays a key role to suggest relations, causes as well as effects. It is reflection
of the social reality.
Limitations: Due to limitation of both time as well as cost, this research method is not
draw samples from larger set of the data. The problem related to validity along with reliability is
major. Due to subjective nature of the qualitative data, it is critical to apply conventional
standards of reliability along with validity (D'Cruz et al. 2016). At the time of data generation,
the researcher plays a central role; therefore it is not possible to repeat the qualitative studies.
Time needed to perform the data collection and analysis is lengthy. Analysis related to