The aim of this paper is to study the determinants of workplace bullying in a group of employees with a privileged position within the company: managers. First of all, we define the phenomenon. After we make a review of literature with the object to set related variables in a global model of workplace bullying. A sample population of 608 managers was obtained from the microdata file of the last European Working Conditions Survey (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions). The methodology used to achieve our research objectives is based on the binary logistic regression model. With this statistical technique we determine the probability of the occurrence of an event –workplace bullying in this case– compared to the probability of the occurrence of the opposite event. The global model is integrated by individual, organizational and contextual factors and predicts the likelihood of workplace bullying in 68% (61,6% between bullied managers and 75,9% between non bullied managers). The resulting model for managers is similar to models of workplace bullying for employees in general.El objetivo del presente trabajo es estudiar los factores determinantes del acoso laboral que inciden en un colectivo de trabajadores con una situación privilegiada dentro de la empresa: los directivos. Tras delimitar conceptualmente el fenómeno, se realiza un recorrido sobre los hallazgos obtenidos a nivel empírico para establecer las variables presentes en un modelo global del acoso laboral. Con una submuestra aleatoria de 608 directivos y mandos intermedios obtenida de la última Encuesta Europea de Condiciones de Trabajo se estima, por etapas, un modelo de regresión logística binaria, para determinar la probabilidad de ocurrencia del acoso. El modelo global obtenido contiene variables a nivel individual, laboral-organizativas y contextuales y predice la probabilidad de acoso en un 68 por 100 (61,6% en directivos acosados y 73,9% en directivos no acosados), obteniéndose un modelo de acoso entre directivos muy similar al que se deduce de la literatura empírica analizada para todo tipo de trabajadores
