چکیده:
Background and Aims: Social loafing refers to individuals’ tendency to exert fewer efforts when they
work in a group than when they work alone. Individuals who feel the injustice in an origination are likelier
to tend to this phenomenon. The present study is meant to investigate social loafing and its relation with
organizational justice among nurses of Tohid Hospital of Sanandaj. Materials and Methods: This study
is a descriptive one. The population of this study included all nurses working in the Tohid Educational
and Health Center in Sanandaj City. The instrument of collecting data was a questionnaire. The
collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 (IBM Company, New York, USA) and employing
descriptive statistics techniques such as frequency, mean, standard deviation, and inferential ones such
as Spearman, Mann–Whitney and Kruskal–Wallis tests. Results: On the basis of the findings of the
research, among the distributive, interactional, procedural and systemic organizational justice, there
is a reverse correlation between distributive component and social loafing (P < 0.05). The obtained
results indicate that the mean of social loafing in females is more than that of males (P < 0.05). Further,
the variable of years of experience is effective on the mean scores of individuals’ loafing (P < 0.05).
Conclusion: The hospital should try reduce the possibility of social loafing in order to prevent the
negative effects related to loafing. One‑way for attaining this aim is to highlight the importance of the
job in such a way that individuals take their tasks and objectives as significant and important; further
the nursing role in caring patients should be considered as outstanding
خلاصه ماشینی:
Social loafing among nurses and its relation with organizational justice Manal Etemadi, Mohsen Ghaffari Darab1, Elahe Khorasani2, Fardin Moradi3, Habibeh Vazirinasab4 Department of Health Services Management, Health Management and Economics Research Center, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran.
The present study is meant to investigate social loafing and its relation with organizational justice among nurses ofTohid Hospital of Sanandaj.
Results: On the basis of the findings of the research, among the distributive, interactional, procedural and systemic organizational justice, there is a reverse correlation between distributive component and social loafing (P < 0.
General questions consisted of gender, age, education, employment type, years of experience, and job title and specific questions included main research variables that are organizational justice and social loafing.
The findings of the present study indicated that social loafing had a higher mean score than organizational justice, but the correlation between these two variables was not significant.
The higher mean score of social loafing than that of organizational justice indicates this issue that social loafing had a more significant role among nurses, and they perceived this issue more that some individuals might exert less effort than them in groups and work shifts.
[26,30] The results of Mortazavi’s study indicated that social loafing in knowledge sharing has negative significant correlation with procedural justice and distributive justice.
[31] The results of a study conducted by Moshabaki indicate that internet loafing has negative significant correlation with distributive justice and procedural justice.