COMPARISON BETWEEN WORKPLACE BULLYING, PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, AND SATISFACTION WITH LIFE AMONG EMPLOYESS IN MANUFACTURING AND POWER PLANT INDUSTRIES IN INDONESIA

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Workplace bullying is a long-term continuous act of harassing, offending, or socially isolating someone or negatively affecting one's work. The aim of this study is to compare the incidence of bullying, psychological conditions, and satisfaction with life among workers who work in manufacturing and power plant industries. This was descriptive quantitative using the survey method involving a total of 445 respondents from both types of industry. These respondents participated in this study by answering a questionnaire distributed online. The findings of this study demonstrated that there were no significant mean differences regarding bullying and psychological conditions in the manufacturing and power plant industries. However, it was identified that there were significant differences in terms of accepting negative actions and the level of satisfaction with life among workers, in which some workers experienced bullying and accepted negative actions by their co-workers and direct superiors. The impact of bullying on workers are stress, loss of self-confidence, and difficulties in making decisions which can interfere with their physical and mental health. This will surely affect how workers deal with stressful conditions or get out from stressful conditions caused by bullying. Management should strive to solve the problem of workplace bullying to prevent this problem from becoming a sustainable and continuous problem