نویسندگان

1 دانشجوی دکتری، مدیریت بازرگانی، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

2 دانشیار، گروه مدیریت، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

3 استادیار، گروه مدیریت، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران

چکیده

این پژوهش در نظر دارد تأثیر عوامل فردی و ماهیت خطا بر افشاگری را شناسایی و مورد بررسی قرار دهد. روش مورد استفاده به صورت ترکیب رویکرد کیفی و کمی است. در رویکرد کیفی، با به‌کارگیری تکنیک دلفی مؤلفه‌های مربوط به هر عامل شناسایی شدند. این تکنیک با نظر متخصصین طی چهار مرحله با ضریب هماهنگی 433/0 پایان یافت، سپس در رویکرد کمی براساس نتایج تکنیک دلفی پرسش‌نامه‌ای تهیه شد و روایی آن با استفاده از معیارهای CVI و CVR مورد تأیید قرار گرفت. پایایی پرسش‌نامه نیز با محاسبه آلفای کرونباخ تأیید شد. بر این اساس پرسش‌نامه در جامعه مورد نظر توزیع و تعداد 274 مورد توسط کادر درمانی و اداری بیمارستان تکمیل و براساس داده‌های گردآوری شده الگوی معادلات ساختاری مورد نظر برازش شد. نتایج برازش الگو نشان داد که نکویی برازش خوب است و مدل برازش شده انطباق خوبی با داده‌های تجربی دارد. در بررسی تأثیر دو عامل ماهیت خطای رخ داده و عوامل فردی، تأثیر عوامل مربوط به ماهیت خطا پذیرفته شد، اما تأثیر عوامل فردی مورد پذیرش قرار نگرفت و رابطه معنا‌دار نبود.

کلیدواژه‌ها

عنوان مقاله [English]

Analysis of Effective Factors on Whistle-blowing in Organization: Case of Alzahra Hospital of Isfahan

نویسندگان [English]

  • Nasrin Alinaghian 1
  • ali nasr Isfahani 2
  • Ali Safari 3

چکیده [English]

This research intends to identify and assess effect of personal factors and materiality of wrongdoing on whistle-blowing. Combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is applied and in qualitative method, Delphi technique used to identify each factor components in 4 stages applying Kenad’s coefficient which was 0/433. Then, in quantitative method, based on result of Delphi technique, a questionnaire was provided and its validity confirmed by CVI and CVR measures. Reliability confirmed by Cronbach’s alpha of 0/766. Therefore, questionnaire was distributed in target population and 274 were completed by medical staff and hospital administration in Alzahra Hospital of Isfahan. Gathered data was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. Results showed that goodness of fit and the model has reasonable adaption with experimental data. In appraising two factors of Personal and Materiality of Wrongdoing. Effect of Materiality of wrongdoing was accepted, but the effect of personal factors was not accepted.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Whistle-blowing
  • Individual Factors
  • Materiality of Wrongdoing
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