The Relationship between Factors Affecting on Workplace Relationship Cohesion
Subject Areas : مدیریت
Afsaneh Khalaj
1
(M.Sc. Student, Department of Business Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran)
Ahmad Rahchamani
2
(Assistant Professor, Department of Business Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran)
Keywords: Work Cohesion, Internal Support, Organizational Relationship Quality, Psychological Connectedness, Internal Socialization, Interpersonal Relationship Quality, Employees of Insurance Companies,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between factors affecting on workplace relationship cohesion. This applied research has been done by descriptive correlation method. Statistical population involved all employees of Iran, Asia, Parsian and Karafarin insurance companies in Alborz province that 520 employees were selected as the sample through probabilistic sampling. The data were collected by Grice et al. (2017) questionnaire. Its validity was confirmed according to professors and experts' views and its reliability was confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha test. Research hypotheses were analyzed using structural equation modeling in LISREL8.54 software. The findings indicated that internal support has a positive and significant effect on the organizational relationship quality and psychological connectedness; Organizational relationship quality has a positive and significant effect on psychological connectedness; Internal socialization has a positive and significant effect on the interpersonal relationship quality, but it has no a significant effect on psychological connectedness; Interpersonal relationship quality has a positive and significant effect on psychological connectedness. Also, 17.2% of the total internal support effect on psychological connectedness indirectly explained by the mediator variable of organizational relationship quality, and 41.3% of the total internal socialization effect on psychological connectedness indirectly explained by the mediator variable of the Interpersonal relationship quality.
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