Abstract
Objective: The purpose of the present work was to study the effects of organizational factors on work alienation among the employers of the Sport and Youth offices in the Golestan Province.
Methodology: The present work was a descriptive research of correlational type, and it was carried out as a field study. The studied population consisted of all the employers of the Sport and Youth offices in the Golestan Province, and was equal to 220 persons. For the studied sample, 141 persons were selected based on the Cochran formula and the stratified sampling. In order to collect the data, the questionnaires of Nair & Vohra’s (2010) organizational factors and Shantz et al. (2015) work alienation were used. Furthermore, in order to analyze the data and identify the effects of the research variables involved, the structural equation modeling using the PLS software was studied.
Results: The results obtained indicate that the organizational structure was effective on the work alienation of the employers of the Sport and Youth offices in the Golestan Province (t = 4.29, β = -0.57). The effects of the nature of work (t = 1.45, β = 0.20), work relations (t = 0.37, β = 0.04), and perception of justice (t = 0.13, β = 0.01) on the employers’ work alienation were not significant.
Conclusion: With respect to the present study, it can be concluded that among the organizational factors involved, the organizational structure can lead to the employers’ work alienation. Therefore, it can be suggested that the managers of the Sport and Youth offices in the Golestan Province can change their organizational structure in order to decrease the work alienation of their employers.
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