“…Later, sociologists extended the concept and defined alienation as an assortment of bad feelings toward the entire society (Schwalbe, 1986). Given the great impact social alienation has on a wide variety of social issues, many studies have attempted to identify the drivers of social alienation, including macro-institutional factors (e.g., firm ownership, Banai and Weisberg, 2003), organizational factors (e.g., leadership style, Sarros et al, 2002), and personal factors (e.g., employment status, Winefield et al, 1991).…”