title: Do gender differences matter to workplace bullying?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Workplace bullying has become an omnipresent problem in most organizations. Gender differences have recently received increasing attention in the workplace bullying domain.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Integrating social dominance theory with gender role theory, this study explores whether male minority and supervisor gender are related to the incidence of workplace bullying.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from 501 public servants employed in the tax administration institute of Taiwan was collected via a questionnaire and analyzed using hierarchical regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Male minority reported more workplace bullying than did the female majority. Subordinates working with male supervisors had more exposure to bullying than those working with female supervisors. However, male supervisors did not exacerbate the relationship between male minority and workplace bullying, while females exposure to workplace bullying was attenuated when working with male supervisors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings confirm the important role of gender differences when predicting bullying at work and support the view that gender is not merely an individual antecedent of bullying, but rather acts as a social factor to influence the incidence of workplace bullying.
authors.affiliation: Department of Business Administration, Tamkang University, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Mei-Ling
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Graduate Institute of Accounting, Tamkang University, Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yi-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Hsieh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D058445:Bullying / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012930:Social Dominance; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D017132:Workplace / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D064450:Workplace Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Keywords; Male minority; gender role theory; public sector; social dominance theory; supervisor gender