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The presence of women in social, economic and political activities has increased due to the development of societies, and if the presence should be continued, societies require providing a proper context. The present study aims to investigate the effect of Organizational Mobbing behaviors on occupational and organizational attitudes. The research method was adopted a descriptive and correlational approach. The sample consisted of 170 female employees who work at Tehran University. An online questionnaire, including 45 series of questions for Organizational Mobbing and 61 series of questions for organizational and occupational attitudes, was employed to collect data that were then analyzed using Factor Analysis and Spearman correlation. The findings show that Spearman's correlation coefficient between Organizational Mobbing behaviors and occupational and organizational attitude was found to be negative, and a negative and significant correlation between occupational and organizational attitude and mobbing behaviors was appeared. The analysis indicate that there is a negative and significant relationship between Organizational Mobbing behaviors and occupational and organizational attitudes. Although the presence of women in organizations has been increasing, bullying behaviors in organizations is growing that can result a lot of damage in this group. Therefore, organizations should take necessary measures to provide a comfortable and peaceful place for them so that they can boost their career in the organization.

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