Providing a model for understanding the phenomenon of employees' laziness among Iranian governmental organizations

Abstract

The present study was to provide a model for understanding the phenomenon of employees' laziness among Iranian governmental organizations. This research is an applied one in terms of purpose and an exploratory-survey one in terms of approach. The statistical population of the research was selected among a group of experts in human resource composed of executive directors specializing in human resources who were interviewed in-depth. This selection and conduct of the interview continued until the theoretical saturation, and then stopped. In this study, the snowball sampling method was used. In this way, the first expert was selected according to initial investigations and surveys of the honorable supervisor. After completing the interview with the first person, he was asked to introduce other expert or experts who may be experts in the field of employees' laziness and contribute to the richness of the research model. This process continued until the researcher theoretical saturation. Eventually, 16 experts were interviewed. In this research, since the grounded theory method was used, the main tools for data collection were in-depth and unstructured interviews with human resources experts. Finally, after three stages coding include open, axial and selective, a conceptual model of research was designed based on the paradigmatic model.