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A Study on the Prevention of Cyberbullying in Workplaces

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  • Youngkeun Choi

    (Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea)

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The purpose of this article is to examine workplace cyberbullying as a cybercrime. Based on deterrence theory and social influence theory, this study builds a model of antecedents to prevent cyberbullying in workplaces. For this, this article conducts a survey of 305 Korean workers and uses SPSS 18.0 for hierarchical regression analysis. The results of this survey being, first, the certainty of detection prevents employees' intention to cyberbullying in the workplace while the severity of penalty and has no effect. Second, subjective norms and descriptive norms prevent employees' intention to cyberbullying in the workplace. The results show that social influence is more important to control members' behavior in workplace cyberbullying than corporate policy. And, this article is the first to investigate the preventers of employees' intentions to cyberbullying in workplace in the perspective of cybercrime.

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  • Youngkeun Choi, 2018. "A Study on the Prevention of Cyberbullying in Workplaces," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), IGI Global, vol. 9(1), pages 18-26, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jt0000:v:9:y:2018:i:1:p:18-26
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