Mobbing, organizational trust, voice and deviance behaviour among environmental health and safety professionals in Nigeria

Yahya Saleh Ibrahim 1, *, Aishatu Abdullahi Na’ibi 2 and Suleiman Usman 3

1 Centre for Energy & Environmental Sustainability Research (CEESR) Kaduna State University-Kaduna-Nigeria.
2 Department of Hospitality Management, Kaduna Polytechnic-Kaduna-Nigeria.
3 Department of Environmental Health Science, Shehu Idris College of Environmental Health Technology Makarfi-Kaduna State Nigeria.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2021, 02(02), 194–205.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2021.2.2.0066
Publication history: 
Received on 07 April 2021; revised on 16 May 2021; accepted on 21 May 2021
 
Abstract: 
This paper aims at assessing the present circumstances strongly associated with healthcare workers in Nigeria. Particular reference is to the recognition of the fact that mobbing and/or bullying stressors are being meted on environmental health workers by other medical and paramedical workers in the field in Nigeria. The study used environmental health workers as sampled population as well includes different actors from the healthcare work force to identify certain key elements associated with mobbing and/or bullying in a set of job-related organizational contexts. The data were obtained using an adopted questionnaire used by previous researchers. In line with this topic three objectives were developed Mobbing and Organizational Trusts, Mobbing and Voice Behaviour, Mobbing and Deviance behaviour. The total number of questionnaires distributed was 220 out of which 200 were dully filled and return for analysis. The results indicated that there is significant relationship between environmental health workers precisely working in the primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare being mobbed or bullied. The identified scene for such act has been identified to be when patients or guest are present in the facility where they work, at meetings or work briefing and during special area inspections. Worst still, was the non-inclusion of environmental health workers in the scheme of building plan, supervision, approval and smooth handing over of projects after completion for lifecycle inspection. The act tends to discourage their job performance and increase the prevalence of diseases related to environmental factors and conditions in the country. Chances are that an environmental health worker may be bullied if the officer insisted on inspecting sites where other professionals (Civil, mechanical, electrical, architects, surveyors amongst other) are in charge during construction. These led to the environmental health workers to suffer from psycho-industrial ailments or work stress, enjoy little satisfaction from their working conditions, and failed to perceive opportunities for promotions in their organizations and future progression in the profession. The implications of these findings could assist in reassuring environmental health workers enviable future, greater challenges and hopes, reduction IN environmentally driven diseases, policy recognition and medical family reintegration by facilitating, good social professional relationships among healthcare workers in the country.
 
Keywords: 

Bullying; Mobbing; Voice Behaviour; Deviance Behavior; Organizational Citizenship

 

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