Social loafing among nurses and its relation with organizational justice

سال انتشار: 1394
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: انگلیسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 26 اسفند 1394

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Background and Aims: Social loafing refers to individuals’ tendency to exert fewer efforts when they work in a group than when they work alone. Individuals who feel the injustice in an origination are likelier to tend to this phenomenon. The present study is meant to investigate social loafing and its relation withorganizational justice among nurses of Tohid Hospital of Sanandaj. Materials and Methods: This study is a descriptive one. The population of this study included all nurses working in the Tohid Educational and Health Center in Sanandaj City. The instrument of collecting data was a questionnaire. Thecollected data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 (IBM Company, New York, USA) and employing descriptive statistics techniques such as frequency, mean, standard deviation, and inferential ones such as Spearman, Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests. Results: On the basis of the findings of theresearch, among the distributive, interactional, procedural and systemic organizational justice, thereis a reverse correlation between distributive component and social loafing (P < 0.05). The obtained results indicate that the mean of social loafing in females is more than that of males (P < 0.05). Further, the variable of years of experience is effective on the mean scores of individuals’ loafing (P < 0.05).Conclusion: The hospital should try reduce the possibility of social loafing in order to prevent the negative effects related to loafing. One‑way for attaining this aim is to highlight the importance of the job in such a way that individuals take their tasks and objectives as significant and important; further the nursing role in caring patients should be considered as outstanding

نویسندگان

Manal Etemadi

Department of Health Services Management, Health Management and Economics Research Center, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran

Mohsen Ghaffari Darab

Department of Business Management, Mobarakeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh,

Elahe Khorasani

Department of Healthcare Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan,

Fardin Moradi

Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,