Management
Razieh Aghababaei
Abstract
The lack of career advancement of women in organizations can lead to several negative consequences such as organizational obstruction, organizational silence, and so on. This lack of career advancement of women in organizations is known as the glass cliff phenomenon. The purpose of this research was ...
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The lack of career advancement of women in organizations can lead to several negative consequences such as organizational obstruction, organizational silence, and so on. This lack of career advancement of women in organizations is known as the glass cliff phenomenon. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of the glass cliff phenomenon on the formation of organizational obstruction and organizational silence with the moderating role of perceived organizational support. The type of research was descriptive, correlational, and the statistical population consisted of 412 female employees in University of Tehran that 204 one were selected as a sample. In order to collect data, four questionnaires of glass cliff, organizational silence, organizational obstruction and perceived organizational support were used. The validity of questionnaires was checked in form face, construction, convergent and divergent. Through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, the reliability of the glass cliff questionnaire was estimated 0.89, organizational silence 0.85, organizational obstruction 0.72, and perceived organizational support 0.77. The results showed that the mean of glass cliff, organizational obstruction and organizational silence was higher than average and the mean of perceived organizational support was lower than average. According to the results, the glass cliff has a positive and significant effect on organizational obstruction and organizational silence. Also, perceived organizational support has a negative & significant effect on organizational silence and organizational obstruction. In addition, the moderating role of perceived organizational support in the effect of the glass cliff on organizational obstruction and organizational silence was confirmed.
Sara Mohammadi
Abstract
Nowadays, in addition to professional and capable employees, hospitals need healthy, enthusiastic and passionate nurses. Organizational health and Job engagement in employees has been considered by many researchers in behavioral sciences and industrial and organizational psychologists for many years, ...
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Nowadays, in addition to professional and capable employees, hospitals need healthy, enthusiastic and passionate nurses. Organizational health and Job engagement in employees has been considered by many researchers in behavioral sciences and industrial and organizational psychologists for many years, and has been attempting to identify its predisposing factors. Among the factors that threaten nurses' job engagement and organizational health are increasing the silence and reducing the organizational voice of nurses, which first affects their job engagement and then leads to a decrease in organizational health. In this regard, the present study investigates the effect of organizational silence and voice on job engagement of women nurses and their organizational health. This study was conducted on a non-random sample available of 268 nurses in Ahvaz hospitals. The research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation in terms of data collection. Data were collected by standard questionnaires with validity and reliability and analyzed using and structural equation modeling with Smart PLS software. The results of data analysis showed that organizational silence and voice of nurses with path coefficients of -0.44, 0.48 and -0.39, 0.53 and t-statistic more than 1.96, had significant effect on their job engagement & organizational health, respectively. The findings showed that the organizational silence of nurses leads to a decrease in job engagement and, consequently, a decrease in their organizational health, and, organizational voice will increase the job engagement of women nurses and thus improve their organizational health.
Women's Studies
Fakhrosadat Nasiri Valekboni; Mohammad Reza Ardalan; Roghayeh Beheshtirad
Abstract
The current study aims to examine the effect of Glass Cliff on work engagement with the mediator roe of organizational silence. The statistical population consists of all formal staff of women in Bu-Ali University of hamedan, totally 88, among which 52 were selected by stratified ...
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The current study aims to examine the effect of Glass Cliff on work engagement with the mediator roe of organizational silence. The statistical population consists of all formal staff of women in Bu-Ali University of hamedan, totally 88, among which 52 were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were gathered through three questionnaires, the glass cliff, organizational silence and work engagement. The validity of the questionnaires was determined based on viewpoints of experts in management and educational sciences. The combined reliability of questionnaires was measured by Dillon-Goldstein coefficient and Average Variance Extracted. The combined reliability of both questionnaires was more than 0.7 and Average Variance Extracted was more than 0.5. The data after collecting were analyzed by Excel, VisualPLS and SmartPLS, Pearson test and with Self-test system, Q2 Stone- Geisser index and Goodness of fit index. The results indicate that the direct effect of the glass cliff on job engagement is negative and significant, but the direct effect of these variables on organizational silence is significant and positive. Also, an effect of organizational silence on work engagement is negative and significant. Indirect effect of glass cliff on work engagement with mediating role of organizational silence is negative and significant.
