Anomie at public organizations: How can the quality of work life help?

Jahanshahi, Asghar Afshar; Dehghani, Amin

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“…Accordingly, anomie at work emerged as one of the underlying mechanisms explaining the relationship between organizational fairness and both the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of precarious workers. Along similar lines, using survey-based data from 250 public sector workers in Iran, Jahanshahi and Dehghani [28] found that enhancing the quality of work life can reduce anomic behaviors at work. As a consequence, according to Choi et al [27], anomie at the workplace can increase deviant workplace behavior.…”

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“…Previous studies have shown that employees' engagement in such deviant behaviors is less frequent in a workplace with low levels of anomie [27]. Increasing the quality of work life in the workplace is an important way of deterring the anomic behavior of employees [28]. According to the study in the context of public sector organizations, fair wages, rewards, security, reduction of the gender pay gap, improvements to work happiness, and promotion and learning opportunities for all employees are some solutions that can reduce the level of normlessness or anomie at work.…”

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“…Higher levels of anomie in an organization have been shown to foster a sense of futility, distrust, normlessness, alienation, and powerlessness among employees [28], which eventually may lead to stronger leave intentions. In contrast, lower levels of anomie at the workplace may assist the organization in creating a special work climate that eliminates employees' unethical behaviors and provides them with mechanisms to resolve their ethical and personal conflicts in a more constructive way [57].…”

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The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers: The Critical Role of Anomie at the Work

Jahanshahi

Mendoza

Castillo³

2022

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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Precarious workers usually have some of the most unstable working conditions in any country. In this research, we firstly investigated the influence of organizational fairness on the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of Peruvian precarious workers. Then, we tested the mediating role of anomie at work in the relationship between organizational fairness and the emotional exhaustion and leave intentions of precarious workers. To identify the impact of organizational fairness on these workers, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among 206 precarious workers in Peru. Our results showed that treating precarious workers fairly reduced their emotional exhaustion and leave intentions. Furthermore, we found that anomie at work mediate the relationship between organizational fairness and the emotional exhaustion and the relationship between organizational fairness and leave intentions of precarious workers. We provide empirical evidence of the critical role of organizational fairness in the reduction of emotional exhaustion and leave intentions among precarious workers. Examining the consequences of precarious workers’ perceptions of organizational fairness is needed for owners and managers of companies to have a clear understanding of how precarious workers’ working environments may shape their attitudes and work behaviors.

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The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers: The Critical Role of Anomie at the Work

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Castillo³

2022

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

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“…Cullen et al (2004) states that managers' behaviors in terms of the concept of justice and ethics are in harmony with the organizational anomie. It has been found out that organizational culture, structure, management style, immoral behavior and unethical behavior in an organization increase employee anomaly (Jahanshahi & Dehghani, 2019;Sypniewska, 2017). Bass and Riggio (2006) in their study associating anomie and transformational leadership; they emphasized that the practices of transformational leaders are effective in gaining important goals, meanings and values that employees need and are related to anomia.…”

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Organizational Anomie: A Qualitative Research on Educational Institutions

Yarım¹,

Çelik²

2021

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This study, which aims to examine the perceptions of teachers working in primary and secondary schools regarding organizational anomaly, was designed with a phenomenology study from qualitative research designs. The working group of the research consists of 16 teachers working in state schools in the central districts of Erzurum in 2020-2021. The data obtained with the measurement tool consisting of semi-structured open-ended questions prepared by the researchers were analyzed by content analysis method. According to the findings obtained in the study, the main causes of anomie experienced by teachers are corruption in working life, loss of values, lack of certain rules and norms, distrust of administrators, unwillingness, impossibility, dissatisfaction, inefficiency and loss of belonging. It has been concluded that it has consequences such as lack of discipline, self-interest and negligence, and that the teachers generally have uncertain and anxious thoughts about the personal and social future. In order to reduce anomaly in schools, a value-oriented human resources management based on the spirit of teachers and a transition to a merit and justice-based appointment system in manager appointments are the basic proposals.

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“…A research group of locally trained research assistants helped us throughout the data collection process(Jahanshahi & Bhattacharjee, ; Jahanshahi & Dehghani, ). To encourage participants and obtain their trust, we received and attached a supportive letter (Maktoob) from a local university to each survey questionnaire.…”

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Sustainable development challenges in a war‐torn country: Perceived danger and psychological well‐being

Jahanshahi

Gholami

Mendoza

2020

Journal of Public Affairs

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The laborer's physical and mental health, well‐being, and happiness are among the major indicators for measuring each nation's sustainable development. A conflictive and hostile external environment (war zone) poses considerable difficulty and psychological distress to workers and nonworkers. Therefore, working in such a physically dangerous business environment may hurt worker's well‐being and happiness that in turn may reduce the workers' productivity at the workplace. A high level of laborers' productivity in public and private sectors is essential for achieving sustainable development in the long term. Therefore, this paper examines the effects of perceived danger on employees' psychological well‐being in war‐torn Afghanistan, an issue being addressed for the first time. We tested the moderating role of social support from coworkers on this effect in order to have a broader vision of which individuals are healthier and happier in a physically dangerous working environment. Two survey data sets were collected from 190 employees working in various small private and public businesses in Herat, Afghanistan. Our results reveal the negative impact of perceived danger on employees' psychological well‐being and that employees who receive little or no social support from their peers feel the negative effects of a physically dangerous working condition even more acutely.

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Anomie at public organizations: How can the quality of work life help?

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers: The Critical Role of Anomie at the Work

The Outcomes of Organizational Fairness among Precarious Workers: The Critical Role of Anomie at the Work

Organizational Anomie: A Qualitative Research on Educational Institutions

Sustainable development challenges in a war‐torn country: Perceived danger and psychological well‐being

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