Fındıklı, M.A., Morgül, G., Anka, F.A. et al. Revisiting workplace mobbing: Tweets and Qualitative Analysis In the Türkiye Case. Neural Comput & Applic 38, 36 (2026).
After the COVID-19 pandemic, the shift toward remote and high-pressure work environments has reshaped the landscape of workplace mobbing. This mixed-method study combines Twitter sentiment analysis with focus-group interviews among Turkish employees to capture both large-scale patterns and lived experiences of mobbing. While macro-level analysis identified common forms such as bullying, exclusion, and overt harassment, focus groups revealed more subtle power imbalances embedded in daily organisational life.
Importantly, employees increasingly interpret systemic unfairness as mobbing. Across both datasets, perceived injustices, including unequal pay, broken promises, and opaque procedures, were merged as a new dimension of mobbing. Workers now associate procedural and distributive inequities with psychological harm. These findings carry important implications for HR and organisational justice.
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