Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Prof., Faculty of Economics and Management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

2 University of lorestan

Abstract

Isolation is one of the well-known phenomena in the dark-edge discourse of organizational behavior that has many visible and hidden effects and causes deviant behaviors to emerge in the workplace that should be avoided in various ways. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of ethical leadership on isolation in the workplace by considering the role of two mediating variables of relationship atmosphere and belief in self-efficacy to understand the possible role of some variables in the context of positive psychological studies. Be. The statistical population of this study is 370 non-faculty staff at different levels in the General Directorate of Sports and Youth of Ilam Province, all of whom were selected as a sample according to the size of the total population. To collect the data, standard questionnaires were used that validity was confirmed with divergent and convergent validity and reliability of the questions through Cronbach's alpha coefficient, combined reliability and factor loadings. The results showed that ethical leadership has a significant and negative effect on isolation in the workplace and a significant and positive effect on the relationship atmosphere and belief in self-efficacy. Also, the effect of relationship atmosphere and belief in self-efficacy on work isolation is significant and negative. It was also found that ethical leadership, separately through the two mediating variables of relationship atmosphere and belief in self-efficacy, has an indirect and negative effect on isolation in the workplace. Subsequently, the claim that isolation in the study community is current in the workplace and Sari was tested by one-t-test, which indicates that the phenomenon is current among employees.

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