Conceptualization
Ali Yasini; Mohammad Adinehvand; Mahmoudreza Kabiri Yeganeh
Abstract
One of the acute forms of organizational and interpersonal misconduct in communication is the phenomenon of gaslighting, which refers to the emotional abuse of an individual or a type of psychological harassment inflicted by others. This is achieved through the imposition of psychological pressures on ...
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One of the acute forms of organizational and interpersonal misconduct in communication is the phenomenon of gaslighting, which refers to the emotional abuse of an individual or a type of psychological harassment inflicted by others. This is achieved through the imposition of psychological pressures on the targeted individual, resulting in a disruption of their organizational duties. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to analyze employees' perceptions and lived experiences of gaslighting in organizational relationships within government organizations in Kermanshah city. To this end, a qualitative research method employing a phenomenological approach was utilized to understand and identify the phenomenon of gaslighting in organizational contexts. The participants in the study consisted of employees from various government organizations in Kermanshah, with a total of 20 interviews conducted using purposive sampling until data saturation was achieved. The inter-rater agreement coefficient was utilized to assess reliability, while validity of the identified codes was ensured through peer review and participant feedback. The results of the content analysis coding revealed that the phenomenon of gaslighting encompasses 18 main categories, which can be categorized into four distinct areas. The first area pertains to management and leadership, which includes categories such as: the manager's inability to accept mistakes, lack of personal accountability, limitations in decision-making, non-acceptance of others' opinions, and dismissal of emotions. The second area relates to communication and social interactions, which includes categories such as: controlling social relationships, disseminating misinformation, instilling uncertainty and doubt in the individual, concealment, and exploiting feelings of sadness and despair. The third area encompasses managerial and professional behaviors, which includes categories such as: blame-oriented behaviors, Machiavellian conduct, bullying, persistent criticism, projecting behaviors, and utilizing past emotions. The fourth area is psychological, which encompasses categories such as controlling employees' personal lives and blame-related behaviors.
Bahram Jalilzadeh Amin; Farhad Nejadhajali irani; Nader Bohloli; yousef Beighzadeh
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The present qualitative study continued with a phenomenological approach in the spring of 1999 on 19 professors of continuing medical education and curriculum planning specialists in a targeted manner until the data were saturated and with respect to the confidentiality of information and places of study ...
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The present qualitative study continued with a phenomenological approach in the spring of 1999 on 19 professors of continuing medical education and curriculum planning specialists in a targeted manner until the data were saturated and with respect to the confidentiality of information and places of study whenever they wished. Data collection was done through semi-structured interviews, data were analyzed based on phenomenological method. In general, 5 main themes and 12 sub-themes were extracted, the main themes being the main challenges of continuing medical education, not using the appropriate teaching model. Lack of individual and group action research, life challenge, and utilization of it. Lack of effective management of training for physicians, lack of active teaching methods, lack of motivation for physicians to learn, lack of transfer of lived experiences of general practitioners, the need for educational research, structural problems of the system of continuing medical education, creating the necessary platform for e-learning , Benefit Ray of Telemedicine KnowledgeIn the quality department of continuing medical education for general practitioners, proper and serious supervision should be examined and a comprehensive system should be designed to evaluate learning so that the actual learning can be measured. Therefore, physicians should be provided with a suitable platform for transferring lived experiences. Take an effective step towards each other and the promotion of specialized knowledge.
Sana Esfandyari; Kazem Askarifar; Abolghasem Ebrahimi
Abstract
Attracting private sector participation in public sector participatory projects in the country requires an organizational framework tailored to the expectations of the private sector, and the purpose of this study as an applied, descriptive, exploratory and mixed research is to provide a public sector ...
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Attracting private sector participation in public sector participatory projects in the country requires an organizational framework tailored to the expectations of the private sector, and the purpose of this study as an applied, descriptive, exploratory and mixed research is to provide a public sector organizational model in order to attract private sector participation in public projects, that has been done in two stages, qualitatively and quantitatively. In the qualitative stage, the factors influencing the decision of the private sector investor in the form of codes, concepts, sub-themes, and main themes have been determined with a phenomenological approach. Then, these organizational factors are classified into effective and efficient factors by DEMATEL method. The statistical population of the study consisted of private investors in public projects and experts of this era, in which 13 private investors and 9 experts were selected in a judgmental and purposeful manner and participated in interviews. Findings show that eleven major themes in the public sector including systems, advertising, business processes, organizational governance, human resources, communications, trust-building, branding, physical evidence of the organization, economic and social attractiveness of projects are influential in the private sector decision to partner with the public sector. Among them, organizational processes, human resources involved in the process of attracting partnerships, and organizational governance of the public sector are the most influential factors.
Modeling
Alireza Amini; Seyyed Mohammad Moghimi
Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 13-32
Abstract
This paper aims to make metaphor for personnel behavior of Iranian public organizations by qualitative method. In this order, two studies were constructed. In the first study, we surveyed people experiences from organizational life and behavior according phenomenology strategy. 43 people from middle ...
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This paper aims to make metaphor for personnel behavior of Iranian public organizations by qualitative method. In this order, two studies were constructed. In the first study, we surveyed people experiences from organizational life and behavior according phenomenology strategy. 43 people from middle managers of public organization were selected by snowball sampling method and Semi-structured interviews were performed to reach theoretical saturation. Texts of the interviews performed were categorized and encoded in units of thought and they were finally classified in theme classes according to making descriptive metaphor. In the second study, in order to explore nature of experiential behavioral metaphor and its positive and negative main impact and particularly result validity of first study, we used Delphi technique from 7 experts included faculty members of university. The research findings explain the behavioral metaphor in the form of five behaviors: cognitive behavioral, political behavior, structural behavior, social behavior and adaptive behavior.
Hasan Boodlaei; Seyyed Mehdi Alvani; Seyyed Mohammad Aarabi; Reza Vaezi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , November 2013, , Pages 7-28
Abstract
Social entrepreneurship is critical to "facilitate change" in the public sector and understand the particular social issues.However, due to the domination of public understanding of economic theories of entrepreneurship is difficult. This Study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of 3 grassroots ...
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Social entrepreneurship is critical to "facilitate change" in the public sector and understand the particular social issues.However, due to the domination of public understanding of economic theories of entrepreneurship is difficult. This Study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of 3 grassroots social entrepreneurs Until to achieved by describing the phenomenological essence of 3 grassroots social entrepreneurs. For this purpose, after emerging experiences created by the researcher, the common thread with text descriptions of specific experiences entrepreneurs in the study were cited. Clustered in eight narrative themes (entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial spirit, structural factors, environmental factors, narrative relating to the detection, evaluation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities, and ultimately the narrative effects) was formed. Finally, to achieve the essence of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship, text descriptions of coherent structures in general were combined with a total of eight classes of horizons within the context of the three concepts are organized. This is the essence of public speaking entrepreneur entrepreneurs entrepreneurship phenomenon of people as human factors, actions, activities and behaviors (the first: entrepreneurial actions) in order to target a specific outcome (the third and the consequences of Activities) and by a set of competencies and activities sponsored by the spirit of enterprise, the environment does nothing (the second entrepreneurial enablers) to fulfill. This could potentially lead to the creation of the research field of social entrepreneurship is to reduce the non-cumulative nature of recent research in the field of social entrepreneurship, lead
