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Effects of Interpersonal Problems at Workplace on Job Involvement

Global Disclosure of Economics and Business

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Title Effects of Interpersonal Problems at Workplace on Job Involvement
 
Creator Ahmed, Mozumdar Arifa
 
Subject Interpersonal relationship; interpersonal conflict; interpersonal problems; job stress, job attitudes
 
Description Job involvement plays an important role to create positive job attitude which indicates strong psychological bonding of an employee to his or her job. On the other hand interpersonal problems at workplace make job conflict, increase job stress which is threatening to create positive job attitudes. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between interpersonal problems and job involvement, to explore how different types of interpersonal problems effect on job involvement and to examine the problem areas of interpersonal relationship in workplace that can create negative impact on job involvement. The measuring instruments used in this study were: Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64) (Alden, Wiggins, Pincus & Horowitz, 2000) for measuring different types of interpersonal problems. And Work Involvement Scale (Kanungo, 1982) for measuring job involvement. According to the objective of the present study the obtain data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation and simple regression. The survey results revealed that interpersonal problem is negatively correlated to job involvement. The study also found that the people who are mostly face problems in cold / distant, overly accommodating and intrusive/needy domains in case of interpersonal relationship; they are more at risk to be less involved with job.JEL Classification Code: M12 Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11903/gdeb.v1n1.3
 
Publisher i-Proclaim
 
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Date 2012-06-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/124
 
Source Global Disclosure of Economics and Business; Vol 1, No 1 (2012): Inaugural Issue; 44-53
2307-9592
2305-9168
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/124/123
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Mozumdar Arifa Ahmed
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