Workplace harassment and its relationship with quality of work life of Nurses in Thrissur District, Kerala

Abstract

Workplace harassment is a serious issue which is facing every individual in their work life. Workplace harassment is a pattern of unwanted behaviour that is intended to intimidate, insult, degrade, or humiliate an individual or group of individuals. Here in this study, the researcher tries to find out the workplace harassment issues prevailing in the hospitals among nursing staff and also find out its relationship with the other variables of quality of work. Stratified random sampling method has been used for selecting respondents from the allopathic hospitals in Thrissur district, Kerala. From the analysis, the researcher could find out the severity of workplace harassment issues in private hospitals than the government hospitals and also found out a strong relationship with the other variables of Quality of work life. The issues of workplace harassment can be reduced to a certain extent by introducing healthy practises such as openness in enforcing regulations, delegating decision making authority, treating employees fairly, by providing adequate training, counselling, and other forms of support and also by establishing a complaints grievance redressal system in the hospitals.