Data: Workplace bullying: Implications for education and strategies for improvement

Workplace bullying is a pervasive issue with significant ramifications for employee well-being and organizational effectiveness. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of workplace bullying and its implications for education, serving as a foundation for non-medical educational institutions. 

Data was collected electronically using Google forms, which met the methodological and research criteria of online research relevance (i.e., high degree of security, archiving and encoding during data transfer, access via generated password). The link to the survey, was distributed via email to healthcare institutions in all regions of the Czech Republic, in both public and private sectors. The participants were asked to provide demographic information and to fill in self-report measures, Negative Acts Questionnaire (NAQ-R). The reliabilities of each self-report measure were calculated based on the responses given by the participants. The research sample consisted of 585 healthcare employees 115 were men and 470 were women. The age range of the entire sample was from 24 to 64 years (mean age 49.49 years; SD 10.40).

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by Technology Agency of Czech Republic Sigma: The Application of Optimized Well-being Strategy in Healthcare Professionals – APOLLO, reg. no.: TQ01000289.