The Model of Managers' Job Ownership

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Ilam university

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Sharing organizational results causes a sense of economic ownership and subsequently psychological ownership of employees. The aim of present study is to design a model of managers' job ownership. Research method is qualitative based on grounded theory. Population of the study consists Ilam state university managers. Sampling method is theoretical through snowball sampling method, based on that 20 interviews with managers were done. Results of these interviews were sets of primary themes collected through open coding process, and some categories were extracted from them. After that, the links among categories were obtained through axial coding process and finally selective coding process was performed. In this study, causal conditions of managers' job ownership were categorized into internal factors (ambitiousness and sense of competence) and external factors (personal greed and job satisfaction). Identified interferer factors are social and economic problems, organizational structural problems, and cultural problems. Positive outcomes of sense of job ownership consist of increasing job success, sense of job security, job commitment, and negative outcomes are monopoly of authority, rise of conflicts within organization and reduction of growth chance.
 

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Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 19
serial no 19
December 2016
Pages 137-162

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