Portuguese validation of the negative acts questionnaire revised (NAQ-R)

Comunicação apresentada na Conferência "O Assédio Moral no Local de Trabalho: emergência de uma nova realidade", 29 e 30 de Novembro de 2007The aim of this paper is twofold: in the first place, reliability and validation analysis of the Portuguese version of the Negative Acts Questionnaire Revised, NAQ-R (Einarsen & Hoel, 2001) are presented; secondly, preliminary results concerning the incidence rates of workplace bullying in the Portuguese banking sector, using two different and complementary strategies are presented as well as the most frequent bullying behaviours. Gender, age, organizational and social status differences are also analyzed. As no validated instrument to map workplace bullying exists at the moment in Portugal, the need to fill this gap can be seen as the starting point of this investigation. Portuguese research in this field has been scarce, or even non existent till now, thus this study has an exploratory nature

Workplace bullying, power and organizational politics: a study of the portuguese banking sector

This paper tries to shed light about the political dimension of workplace bullying through the quantitative analysis of work environment factors, like perceptions of organizational politics, work overload and internal competition, and the qualitative analysis of accounts of respondents to a questionnaire launched in the Portuguese banking sector. Our sample is made up of 561 valid responses containing 64 stories of bullying episodes and, in the qualitative data, political behaviours occur associated with organizational practices, perceived as bullying, which may reinforce the connexion between political behaviours and workplace bullying. The organizational practices indentified were: "Being left idle", "The denying ofpromotion " and "Staff Appraisal for Performance ". A deeper analysis ofpower was carried out to identify the main sources of power (reward, coercive, legitimate, expert and reference) embedded in accounts of bullying behaviours. The main sources of power identified were coercive and negative reward power. These results reinforce the previous findings about the power dimension of bullying and open new directions for future research concerning the different sources of power behind bullying behaviours

Assédio moral no trabalho : uma aplicação ao sector bancário português

Doutoramento em Sociologia Económica e das OrganizaçõesEmbora a temática do assédio moral no local de trabalho seja um tópico de investigação relativamente recente, tem vindo a despertar um interesse crescente junto da comunidade académica. Este projecto tem como propósito contribuir para a investigação existente sobre assédio moral no local de trabalho, através do estudo deste fenómeno no sector bancário português. Nesse sentido foi realizado um estudo empírico, utilizando simultaneamente uma metodologia quantitativa e qualitativa, e tendo como objectivos específicos: Medir o nível de incidência de assédio moral quer em termos de auto-percepção (subjectivo) quer em termos comportamentais (objectivo); Caracterizar a experiência de ser alvo de assédio moral, identificar os comportamentos mais frequentes e principais estratégias utilizadas pelas vítimas, no decorrer do processo; Analisar a relação entre diversos factores organizacionais e socioeconómicos e a ocorrência de assédio moral no local de trabalho; Os resultados obtidos demonstram que o nível de incidência de assédio moral de carácter severo ascende a 5,9% (subjectivo) e a 39,8%, do ponto de vista comportamental (objectivo). Uma análise de componentes principais revelou três dimensões (assédio relacionado com o trabalho, assédio organizacional e assédio pessoal), as quais explicam 64,8% da variação das variáveis originais. No que se refere aos factores organizacionais potencialmente geradores de assédio moral no local de trabalho, confirmaram-se globalmente as hipóteses definidas à partida, tendo-se constatado uma associação positiva entre stress laboral, comportamentos políticos, atribuição de prémios e recompensas, grandes mudanças organizacionais e assédio moral no trabalho. Confirmou-se também a associação negativa entre comportamentos de cidadania organizacional e assédio moral no local de trabalho e ainda o papel mediador desta variável em contextos de grandes mudanças organizacionais.Despite being a fairly recent research topic, workplace bullying has received increasing attention in recent years from the academic community. The aim of this study is to contribute to the existing research on workplace bullying through the study of this phenomenon in the Portuguese banking sector. In order to do it, we made use of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, having as specific goals: to measure the prevalence of workplace bullying in the Portuguese banking sector, both trough a definition (subjective perception) and a list of bullying behaviours; to describe the experience of being victimized, the most frequent behaviours and the different strategies used by victims; to analyze the role played by the work and socioeconomic factors in the emergence of workplace bullying. The findings show that the incidence level of severe workplace bullying amounts to 5,9%, according to the subjective perception of victims, and to 39,8%, according to the list of bullying behaviours. A principal component analysis of the construct has revealed three components, labelled work related, organizational and personal bullying, accounting for 64,8% of the total variance. Regarding socioeconomic, organizational and work related factors, the results have shown a positive association amongst workload and stress, political behaviours, rewards and benefits and the emergence of workplace bullying. A negative association between organizational citizenship behaviour and workplace bullying has also been found and also a mediator role of organizational citizenship behaviour over organizational changes in the emergence of workplace bullying

Assédio moral no local de trabalho: o caso do sector bancário português

O objectivo deste artigo é fazer, por um lado, uma breve revisão da literatura europeia relacionada com a ocorrência de assédio moral no local de trabalho e, por outro lado, fazer um ponto da situação da investigação existente em Portugal sobre esta temática, dando especial ênfase ao sector bancário português. Os resultados obtidos num estudo empírico recente, que teve como objecto este sector de actividade económica, são apresentados e discutidos à luz da evidência empírica existente. Adicionalmente é apresentado um panorama sintético da abordagem jurídica portuguesa deste fenómeno, o qual ganhou algum destaque no contexto da actual legislação laboral.assédio moral, sector bancário, legislação laboral

Assédio moral no local de trabalho : o caso do sector bancário português

O objectivo deste artigo é fazer, por um lado, uma breve revisão da literatura europeia relacionada com a ocorrência de assédio moral no local de trabalho e, por outro lado, fazer um ponto da situação da investigação existente em Portugal sobre esta temática, dando especial ênfase ao sector bancário português. Os resultados obtidos num estudo empírico recente, que teve como objecto este sector de actividade económica, são apresentados e discutidos à luz da evidência empírica existente. Adicionalmente é apresentado um panorama sintético da abordagem jurídica portuguesa deste fenómeno, o qual ganhou algum destaque no contexto da actual legislação laboral

SARS-CoV-2 introductions and early dynamics of the epidemic in Portugal

Genomic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal was rapidly implemented by the National Institute of Health in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic, in collaboration with more than 50 laboratories distributed nationwide. Methods By applying recent phylodynamic models that allow integration of individual-based travel history, we reconstructed and characterized the spatio-temporal dynamics of SARSCoV-2 introductions and early dissemination in Portugal. Results We detected at least 277 independent SARS-CoV-2 introductions, mostly from European countries (namely the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, and Switzerland), which were consistent with the countries with the highest connectivity with Portugal. Although most introductions were estimated to have occurred during early March 2020, it is likely that SARS-CoV-2 was silently circulating in Portugal throughout February, before the first cases were confirmed. Conclusions Here we conclude that the earlier implementation of measures could have minimized the number of introductions and subsequent virus expansion in Portugal. This study lays the foundation for genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Portugal, and highlights the need for systematic and geographically-representative genomic surveillance.We gratefully acknowledge to Sara Hill and Nuno Faria (University of Oxford) and Joshua Quick and Nick Loman (University of Birmingham) for kindly providing us with the initial sets of Artic Network primers for NGS; Rafael Mamede (MRamirez team, IMM, Lisbon) for developing and sharing a bioinformatics script for sequence curation (https://github.com/rfm-targa/BioinfUtils); Philippe Lemey (KU Leuven) for providing guidance on the implementation of the phylodynamic models; Joshua L. Cherry (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health) for providing guidance with the subsampling strategies; and all authors, originating and submitting laboratories who have contributed genome data on GISAID (https://www.gisaid.org/) on which part of this research is based. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the view of the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the United States government. This study is co-funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação Biomédica (234_596874175) on behalf of the Research 4 COVID-19 call. Some infrastructural resources used in this study come from the GenomePT project (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022184), supported by COMPETE 2020 - Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI), Lisboa Portugal Regional Operational Programme (Lisboa2020), Algarve Portugal Regional Operational Programme (CRESC Algarve2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Molecular Variants of Human Papillomavirus Type 16 and 18 and Risk for Cervical Neoplasia in Portugal

Persistent high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is considered as the central cause of invasive cervical cancer. Specific HPV 16 and 18 sequence variations were associated with an increased risk for progression. The purpose of this study was to analyze intratypic variations of HPV 16 and 18 within the E6 gene, MY09/11 and LCR regions, and to evaluate the risk of these variants for cervical neoplasia among Portuguese women. Cervical samples from 187 HPV 16-positive and 41 HPV 18-positive women with normal epithelium, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, or invasive cervical cancer were amplified by type-specific PCR, followed by sequence and phylogenetic analysis. Sixteen new HPV 16 and 18 patterns are described in this paper. European HPV 16 variants were the most frequent (74.3%), particularly Ep-T350 (44.4%), followed by African (16.1%), and Asian-American (9.6%). Non- European HPV 16 variants were more frequent in pre-invasive lesions than in normal tissue and low-grade lesions. However, when analyzed separately, only African variants were associated significantly with an increased risk for cervical cancer. For HPV 18, the AsAi variant showed a trend, which was not statistically significant to an enhanced oncogenicity. European variants seemed to be significantly associated with a lower risk for cervical cancer development. The distribution of HPV 16 and 18 variants was not related to age or race among women living in the same geographical region. Knowledge of variants will be important for risk determination as well as for designing primers or probes for HPV detection methods, and for appropriate cervical cancer prevention strategies.Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Ref. 68762