Modelling Organizational Violence in the Covid-19 Era

Enrique Martínez-Muñoz,Cruz García-Lirios,Arturo Sánchez-Sánchez

doi:10.31579/2578-8868/194

Abstract

In the context of organizations and their relationship with the increasingly competitive environment, leaders have been pressured to establish control systems in which the differences between employees are exacerbated since, in the absence of labor competencies, these are They are intended to substitute for acts of loyalty to the company that lead to violence towards those who are the culprits of poor performance or are not seen as part of a working group. This is how organizational violence is justified within collaborative teams, as would be the case of Higher Education Institutions where the phenomenon is exacerbated with the emergence of electronic technologies, devices, and networks. The objective of this study was to establish the reliability and validity of an instrument that measures organizational violence. A non-experimental, cross-sectional, and confirmatory study was carried out with a non- probabilistic selection of 100 students from a public university in central Mexico. The results in general show that organizational violence would be made up of eight factors such as: prejudice, depersonalization, benevolence, harassment, subjugation, objectification, stigma, and harassment, which show the limits of the study and guidelines of research concerning equity.

Highlights

Until March 2021, the pandemic has claimed the lives of two million in the world (WHO, 2021)
The instrument in general terms seems to be distributed in moments that can be correlated with each other and for this reason, validity and reliability estimates are recommended
It is necessary to explore the dimensions of the organizational climate since workplace violence is only one aspect of the relationships that can be established between employees and managers

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Introduction

Until March 2021, the pandemic has claimed the lives of two million in the world (WHO, 2021). In Mexico, about 500 deaths are estimated related to the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus and the Covid-19 disease (PAHO, 2021) In this scenario, mitigation policies focused on confinement and social distancing, affecting remote work. Coupled with the economic and occupational situation, the pandemic intensified the differences between employees by confining them to their residences and living with family members in a small and crowded space (Chaparro, 2020: p.113; Islam, Jerin, Hafiz, Nimfa, & Wahab, 2021) In this way, the study of violence in the Covid-19 era supposes a wide spectrum of differences between the parties involved and the inhibition of commitment and innovation. The family context is pointed out, and on the other, the development and transition from the work context to the interior of the home; since the literature recognizes that the family is the first support and care network (Angley, Divney, Magriples, & Keshaw, 2015; Bae, 2015; García, García, & Rivera, 2016)

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