Author

• Amirhossein Yazarloo

Master Student of General Psychology, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this research work was to study the role of perceived incivility in the workplace on occupational alienation of physical education teachers with the moderating role of interpersonal trust.
Methodology: In order to execute this applied research work, the correlation research method was used. All the physical education teachers of Golestan province (575 teachers) constituted the statistical population of this study that according to Cochran's formula for determining the sample size; 231 teachers were selected by stratified random selected and answered to questionnaires of perceived incivility in the workplace (Cortina et al., 2001), interpersonal trust (Zhang, 2021), and occupational alienation (Shantz et al., 2015). In line with evaluate validity of the used tool, the opinions of five PhDs in sports management were used and by conducting a preliminary study, reliability coefficients of 0.83, 0.78, and 0.79 were calculated for perceived incivility in the workplace, interpersonal trust, and occupational alienation respectively that these numbers indicate the appropriate quality of the research tool. The obtained data were analyzed descriptively (mean, standard deviation and percentage of variance) and inferentially (structural equation modeling).
Findings: The findings of the research revealed that the relationship between perceived incivility in the workplace and occupational alienation of physical education teachers is positive and significant. Another part of the results showed a negative and significant relationship between interpersonal trust and occupational alienation of physical education teachers. Finally, the moderating role of interpersonal trust in the relationship between perceived incivility in the workplace and occupational alienation of physical education teachers was not confirmed.
Conclusion: Based on the results obtained in this research work, it can be stated that the perception of incivility in the workplace by physical education teachers can have negative and destructive consequences such as increase in job alienation; therefore, it is suggested that administrators prevent such a phenomenon by determining moral indicators and strengthening the communication skills of teachers in schools.

Keywords

• Mutual Respect
• Social Interactions
• Communication Networks
• Unethical Behaviors

Main Subjects

• پیامدهای نگرشی منابع انسانی در ورزش مانند، رضایت شغلی، تعهد شغلی و سازمانی و ...