Determining the Correlation between Organizational Nudge and Organizational Mobbing with Job Stress

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1 Faculty of Economics and Management, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad Branch, Firoozabad, Iran

2 Faculty of Economics and Management, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran

3 Department of Sports Management, Islamic Azad University, Firozabad Branch, Firozabad, Iran

Abstract

Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between organizational nudge and organizational mobbing variables with employee job stress.
Methods: The present study was conducted in the descriptive-correlation method with applied nature in 1400. The statistical population includes 228 administrative, financial, and support staff of Shiraz military hospitals. A statistical sample of 143 people was selected based on Cochran's formula. The sampling method was simple random available and the standard questionnaire measurement selection was used in which the 5-point Likert scale from strongly agree to disagree strongly was used. Demographic, organizational nudge, organizational mobbing, and job stress questionnaires were used to collect data. The validity of the questionnaires was assessed by content, convergent and divergent methods, and their reliability was evaluated by internal consistency and composite reliability. The structural equation model was used to analyze the correlation and Amos software version 26 and SPSS version 22 were used for data analysis.
Results: The output of structural equations showed that the coefficient of statistical path of t-statistic was negatively and significantly correlated between organizational nudge variables with job stress (t=9/25, β=-0/586) and positively correlated between organizational mobbing variables and job stress. Is significant (t=6/55, β=0/594).
Conclusion: Increasing the hostile behaviors of employees in the workplace leads to increasing job stress and reducing organizational productivity. With timely nudge and control of these hostile behaviors, the efficiency and health of the organizational environment can be increased.

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Journal of Military Medicine
Volume 24, Issue 3 - Serial Number 112
May and June 2022
Pages 1132-1139

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