Effects of Interpersonal Problems at Workplace on Job Involvement

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  • Mozumdar Arifa Ahmed Eastern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/gdeb.v1i1.202

Keywords:

Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal conflict, interpersonal problems, job stress, job attitudes

Abstract

Job involvement plays an important role to create positive job attitude which indicates strong psychological bonding of an employee to his or her job. On the other hand interpersonal problems at workplace make job conflict, increase job stress which is threatening to create positive job attitudes. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between interpersonal problems and job involvement, to explore how different types of interpersonal problems effect on job involvement and to examine the problem areas of interpersonal relationship in workplace that can create negative impact on job involvement. The measuring instruments used in this study were: Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (IIP-64) (Alden, Wiggins, Pincus & Horowitz, 2000) for measuring different types of interpersonal problems. And Work Involvement Scale (Kanungo, 1982) for measuring job involvement. According to the objective of the present study the obtain data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation and simple regression. The survey results revealed that interpersonal problem is negatively correlated to job involvement. The study also found that the people who are mostly face problems in cold / distant, overly accommodating and intrusive/needy domains in case of interpersonal relationship; they are more at risk to be less involved with job.

JEL Classification Code: M12

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Author Biography

  • Mozumdar Arifa Ahmed , Eastern University

    Lecturer, Faculty of Business Administration, Eastern University, Bangladesh

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Ahmed , M. A. . (2012). Effects of Interpersonal Problems at Workplace on Job Involvement. Global Disclosure of Economics and Business, 1(1), 44-53. https://doi.org/10.18034/gdeb.v1i1.202
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