Summary information

Study title

Stories about Fear and Intimidation at Work 2008-2009

Creator

Eriksson, Marja (University of Tampere. Department of Management Studies)
Koski, Anne (University of Tampere. Department of Management Studies)
Luomanen, Jari (University of Tampere. Department of Management Studies)
Parviainen, Jaana (University of Tampere. Department of Management Studies)

Study number / PID

FSD2607 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2607 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd2607 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The qualitative dataset consists of 102 accounts of people's experiences of fear and intimidation at work in Finland. The participants were asked to provide some essential background variables such as their gender, the branch and size of the organisation etc. They were asked to describe what they were afraid of and why, what had led to the situation and by what means had they been intimidated. The writers were also invited to describe situations where they themselves had resorted to intimidation at work and what the consequences had been, and how the atmosphere of fear had affected the workplace in general and the interpersonal relations there. The data were collected as part of the LEAR (Leadership, Power and Fear) research project conducted by the Department of Management Studies at the University of Tampere. The project was funded by the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Work Environment Fund. The project opened an online research platform in June 2008 and invited voluntary participants to write narratives about their experiences. The range of participants varied from workers to high management. The dataset is only available in Finnish.

Methodology

Data collection period

06/2008 - 03/2009

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Cross-section

Analysis unit

Individual
Media unit: Text

Universe

People working in Finland who had experienced intimidation and fear at work

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Qualitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2011

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

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