Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly

Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly

Designing a Salutgenic Leadership Model in Industrial Companies Using an Interpretive Structural Method

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
1 Lorestan university assistant professor, Management faculty, Korramabad, Iran
2 PHD student of management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
Abstract
In most societies, health is growing in importance within organizations. People who work under stressful conditions, such as employees of industrial and service companies, are at risk. Health-oriented leadership is a unique strategy that involves changing the physical and spatial environment in which employees work. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of designing a health-oriented leadership model for industrial companies.This research was based on a mixed-methods approach, incorporating qualitative and quantitative research within the inductive-deductive paradigm. It is applied in terms of purpose and is classified as sequential-exploratory research. The statistical population of the present study included university professors as well as senior and middle managers of industrial companies, from which 27 people were selected as sample members using purposeful sampling and based on the principle of theoretical saturation.The data collection tools were semi-structured interviews in the qualitative part and an interpretive structural modeling questionnaire in the quantitative part. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis and coding, and quantitative results were analyzed using the ISM method. In the qualitative section, after conducting a thorough and deep study of the interviews and the obtained information and data, each interview was first analyzed and initial codes were extracted. Then concepts and categories were created.The findings of this section showed that the main categories of the health-oriented leadership model include health-oriented leadership fields, health-oriented leadership boosters, health-oriented leadership dimensions, and health-oriented leadership outcomes. In the quantitative part of the research, conceptual modeling was done with the help of interpretive structural modeling.Health-oriented leadership in industrial companies has positive consequences, and it can be said that because of these results, health-oriented leadership will be very important for companies.
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