Esmaeil Kakehbaraei; Mansour Irandoost; Jamal Adhami; Reza Salehi
Abstract
The thoughts and feelings of employees, which are referred to as employee energy (EE), play an important role in shaping the performance of employees in the workplace. Therefore, This concept has become a new goal in the field of organizational knowledge. Hence, this study is operated to design ...
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The thoughts and feelings of employees, which are referred to as employee energy (EE), play an important role in shaping the performance of employees in the workplace. Therefore, This concept has become a new goal in the field of organizational knowledge. Hence, this study is operated to design a conceptual framework for the semantic reconstruction of employee energy in public organizations. The study method is pursued as a Grounded Theory (GT), in which selective, axial, and open coding analyses were completed based on the Strauss and Corbin method. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews. Using purposive sampling, the contributors included (N=20) experts and managers of public organizations, and interviews followed until the point of theoretical saturation. The obtained data were extracted from 283 primary codes, 97 concepts, 18 subcategories, and 6 categories. The analysis of this study showed that the central phenomenon is the energy of employees in the process was identified from causal conditions (Psychological characteristics, Healthy lifestyle, Genetics, Effective communication, Managerial leadership style, Job characteristics, and Quality of working life), contextual conditions (Dynamics of the economic, the political, the social, the cultural systems, and Technological developments), intervening conditions (Age, Gender, Education, Work experience, Type of employment); strategies (Psychological development, Health improvement, Social network development), and consequences (Instrumental, ultimate).
Ali Asghari Sarem; Hasan Danaei Fard; Arian Gholipoor; Ali Asghar Fani
Volume 2, Issue 1 , January 2015, , Pages 135-161
Abstract
The Critical Incident Technique (CIT), a research method that relies on a set of procedures to collect, content analyze, and classify observations of human behavior, was introduced to the social sciences by Flanagan (1954), about 60 years ago. Despite the antiquity ofCIT, it is less well known in Iran. ...
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The Critical Incident Technique (CIT), a research method that relies on a set of procedures to collect, content analyze, and classify observations of human behavior, was introduced to the social sciences by Flanagan (1954), about 60 years ago. Despite the antiquity ofCIT, it is less well known in Iran. The purpose of this paper is to informe Iranian organizational researchers about CIT. In this paper, we have discussed the philosophical foundation of critical incident technique (CIT). The critical incident technique, is particularly useful when researchers are interested in understanding the details of interactional events. The executive steps of conducting a research by CIT, is discussed. In addition, some criteria for evaluating CIT research, are provided.
