Document Type : Descriptive

Authors

• Mohammad javad shakeri ¹
• mohadese nadershahi ²
• ali Asghar mobasheri ³

¹ Department of Industrial engineering, ACECR Institute of Higher Education Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran

² Department of Industrial engineering, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

³ faculty of administrative sciences and economy, University of Isfahan, Isfahan,Iran

Abstract

Considering the negative consequences of invisibility of employees in organizations and the need to identify the factors affecting it in order to manage this destructive phenomenon, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and prioritizing the factors affecting invisibility of employees in Iranian organizations. The present study is classified as applied research in terms of its purpose and is exploratory in terms of its nature and data collection method. In the qualitative part, the factors affecting invisibility of employees were identified using the meta-synthesis method, and in the quantitative part, the identified factors were ranked using the Type 2 Fuzzy Hierarchical Method. The statistical population of the qualitative part of the research consists of previous studies, in which 28 sources were selected for use in the research through the evaluation of the title, abstract, and content of the available sources. The statistical population of the quantitative part consists of academic experts in Fars province, of whom 8 people were selected as sample members using the purposive sampling method. The required data in the qualitative part was collected through a literature review and in the quantitative part through a questionnaire. The findings showed that three categories of organizational factors, individual factors, and job factors can affect the invisibility of employees in Iranian organizations.

Keywords

• Invisible employees
• employee’s mental absence
• meta-synthesis
• fuzzy analytic hierarchy process type 2

Main Subjects

• Pathology