The effect of incivility in the work environment on deviant behaviors in the work environment with the mediating role of organizational pessimism and emotional exhaustion (case study: Isfahan Islamic Azad University (Khorasgan))

Subject Areas : Behavioral Studies in Management

Abbas Ghaedamini Harouni ¹ , Reza Ebrahimzadeh Dastjerdi ² , Mehrdad Sadeghi de cheshmeh ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Cultural Management and Planning, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2023-10-17 Accepted : 2023-12-03 Published : 2023-09-23

Keywords: Emotional Exhaustion, deviant behaviors in the workplace, Organizational Pessimism, Incivility in the Workplace,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of incivility in the workplace on deviant behaviors in the workplace with the mediating role of organizational pessimism and emotional exhaustion. The current research was applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive in terms of the method of collecting correlational data. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all the employees of Isfahan branch of Islamic Azad University (Khorasgan) in the number of 660 people, and 445 people were selected as a sample through the stratified sampling method proportional to the volume through Cochran's sampling formula. The research tools were Cortina et al.'s workplace incivility questionnaire (2001), Spector et al.'s deviant behavior questionnaire (2006), Dean et al.'s (1998) organizational cynicism questionnaire, and Maslach and Jackson's emotional exhaustion questionnaire (1981). Based on this, the content, form and construct validity were examined and after the necessary terms, the validity was confirmed and on the other hand, the reliability of the questionnaires was 0.90, 0.90, 0.88 and 0.88 respectively with Cronbach's alpha method. Estimated. Data analysis was done at two descriptive and inferential levels including structural equation modeling.The results of the research showed that incivility in the workplace had a positive effect on deviant behaviors in the workplace, and the coefficient of this effect was 0.77, and also, the results showed that organizational pessimism and emotional exhaustion play a mediating role between incivility in the workplace and deviant behaviors. had in the work environment.