THE ROLE OF BEHAVIOURAL INTEGRITY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CLIMATE IN REDUCING SOCIAL UNDERMINING IN THE WORKPLACE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE OPINIONS OF A SAMPLE OF WORKERS IN AL-NAJAF HOSPITALS

• Published in: International Journal of eBusiness and eGovernment Studies Vol. 15; no. 3; p. 39
• Main Authors: Al-Sharifi, Zainab Hadi Maaouf, Almayali, Hakim Hsoonee Magroud, Haddawee, Ameerh Hatif
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cankaya-Izmir The Social Sciences Research Society 01.01.2023
• Subjects: Assistants; Behavior; Discrimination; Ethical conduct; Ethics; Honesty; Hospitals; Morality; Role models; Welfare; Work environment; Workers; Workplaces
• ISSN: 2146-0744
• DOI: 10.34111/ijebeg.2023150303

This study seeks to examine the correlation between behaviouralintegrity and psychological climate, and their impact on mitigating social undermining in the workplace.The government-operated hospitals in Al-Najaf Al-Ashraf city were chosen as the data collection sites for this study. The study's sample includes 285 doctors and medical assistants (also referred to as 'clinical assistants') who were selected at random. An analysis using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted to investigate how behavioural integrity and psychological climate can help decrease instances of social undermining within the workplace. The findings indicate a clear negative relationship between behavioural integrity and social undermining in the workplace. Similarly, psychological climate also exhibits a negative association with social undermining in the workplace. Furthermore, workplace social undermining shows a negative correlation with both behavioural integrity and psychological climate. This study underscores the significance of behaviouralintegrity in the work environment. Reducing social undermining at work, including integrity behavior. Here is an impetus for hospital administrations to find effective strategies on fostering ethics at the workplace and maintaining a positive psychological climate: ensure that all employees receive proper guidance on how ethical conduct can be nurtured and what they can do to support such behavior among their colleagues in addition, create supportive environment for them by having policies that care for their welfare. More so, through training programs focusing on courtesy plus honesty, as this will help leaders understand the need of being good role models and promoting cultures where workers are appreciated due to their efforts and recognized for their contributions without discrimination. Taking into account these issues will help hospitals create more productive and harmonious working environments: this has implications not only towards reduced cases of social undermining but also heightened work output even more peacefully coexistent personnel.This research contributes meaningfully to existing studies on social undermining at the workplace because it brings out new findings that other literature has not captured before concerning interplay between social undermining integrity behaviour and psychological climate owing.