Workplace Harassment Impacting the Turnover Intention and Females Career Development

Abstract

The Female Career growth in manufacturing industry is mostly impacted by the workplace harassment and discrimination. Most of the studies revealed that females are the one who face the discrimination and harassment in the workplace comparatively male. Therefore, their career growth is impacted due to such factors. The key objective of this study is to investigate the impact on female career growth and analyze the meditating role of Turnover Intention between the Workplace Bullying, Workplace harassment, Employee Silence and Career Development. A sample of 250 Female Professionals from manufacturing Industry has been selected for this study. The SPSS and AMOS software is further used to evaluate the related constructs which supported the relation/hypothesis between Workplace Bullying, Workplace Harassment, Employee Silence and Turnover Intention. It also supported the hypothesis between Workplace Bullying, Workplace Harassment, Employee Silence and Females Career Development. Moreover, the mediating variable Turnover Intention has positive effect on Female Career Deployment. It has been also observed that Turnover Intention plays a mediating role between Workplace Bullying and Female Career Development and so, between Employee Silence and Female Career Development whereas the hypothesis has been rejected between Workplace Harassment and Female Career Development.