The Essence of Sectarianism in Public Organizations: A Study in Afghanistan

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Alkouzehi Adeleh; HADAVINEJAD MOSTAFA

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Journal: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Year:2020 | Volume:11 | Issue:4 Page(s): 608-628

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The Essence of Sectarianism in Public Organizations: A Study in Afghanistan

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Alkouzehi Adeleh | HADAVINEJAD MOSTAFA | Issue Writer Certificate

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SectarianismQ1

Behavioral artifactsQ1

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Descriptive phenomenologyQ1

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Objective: Sectarianism in a workplace is a dysfunctional phenomenon that is disruptive in the process of organizational democracy. The purpose of this study is to discover the essence of this phenomenon in public organizations in Herat province of Afghanistan. Methods: The research strategy was descriptive Phenomenology and participants were 24 employees from 16 public organizations in Herat province of Afghanistan, selected through a typical sampling to theoretical saturation. Maxqda software was used to analyze the interviews. Results: The findings of the study showed that the essence of Sectarianism in the studied organizations include four categories of sectarian Behavioral artifacts as organizing building blocks of this phenomenon: sectarian political behaviors, precedence of sectarian relationships to regulations, discrimination sectarian and leader-member sectarian exchange. Conclusion: Organizational sectarian behaviors in the domain of research are sectarian political behaviors that are favorable for members of the sect, but to the detriment of public interests, which emerge as sectarian and gender-based discrimination. In this phenomenon, through the leader-member sectarian exchange, members of the sect are regarded by the management as ingroup and the others as out-group persons, and thus the in-groups enjoy special interests over other members. For this reason, sectarian relationships are preferred over the regulations.

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Alkouzehi, Adeleh, & HADAVINEJAD, MOSTAFA. (2020). The Essence of Sectarianism in Public Organizations: A Study in Afghanistan. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 11(4 ), 608-628. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/139761/en

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Alkouzehi Adeleh, HADAVINEJAD MOSTAFA. The Essence of Sectarianism in Public Organizations: A Study in Afghanistan. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION[Internet]. 2020;11(4 ):608-628. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/139761/en

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Adeleh Alkouzehi, and MOSTAFA HADAVINEJAD, “The Essence of Sectarianism in Public Organizations: A Study in Afghanistan,” JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, vol. 11, no. 4 , pp. 608–628, 2020, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/139761/en

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