Workplace Mobbing: The Causal Factor of Neurotic Personality and Employees’ Intention to Leave of Selected Private Institutions in South-West, Nigeria.
Adeoye, Solomon. O; Egbuta, Olive. U; Abolarin, Emmanuel O.

Abstract
The survival of any organisation in the modern-day business depends on harmonious relationship among employees charged with the responsibility of achieving organisation objectives. The study examined the impact of workplace mobbing as causal factor of neurotic personality and employees’ intention to leave in South-West, Nigeria. It made use of descriptive survey on the target population made up of lower and middle level non-academic staff of five selected private institutions of higher education in South-West Nigeria with the sample size of 322 respondents. The researchers used primary method of data collection through adapted questionnaire to elicit response on a likert scale coded with numerical values for ease of data analysis. Frequencies and descriptive statistics were used to make inference from data collected. The study found that workplace mobbing had a moderately high impact on neurotic personality and employees’ intention to leave in South-West, Nigeria. It was established from the analysis that workplace mobbing fuelled neuroticism and employees’ intention to leave in the selected private institutions of higher education across the areas of the study.

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