Identification of Abusive Supervision Components between Non-Academic Staff of Iran's Higher Education System (Case Study:A University)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master of Educational Management, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Al-Zahra University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the components of abusive supervision between non-faculty staff in Iran's higher education system. To this end, using Liang Hu's (2017) abusive surveillance model, two groups of personality factors related to managers (supervisors) and organizational factors, including tendency toward domination, perceived inner respect, situational instability and motivation for Maintaining the job position as the personality factors of managers (supervisors) as well as the organizational structure and hostile atmosphere as organizational factors influencing the abuse-based monitoring were analyzed and analyzed. In order to study, one of the universities of Tehran was selected. The statistical population of this study was all non-faculty staff of this university which according to the reports of the administrative affairs of the university, consists of 441 people, including queue staff and headquarters. Of these 200 people using the Cochran formula as a research sample selected. The received information supports and validates Liang Hu's pattern. The first predictor of abuse-based monitoring was situational instability. Also, the variables of mechanical structure and tendency towards domination of managers were significantly different from the viewpoint of the two groups of queue staff and staff members.

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The Journal of New Thoughts on Education
Volume 14, Issue 3 - Serial Number 49
November 2018
Pages 117-136

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