Organizational Metastimuli: A Grounded Theory of Equipping Employees with Organizational Slack

The resent study, try to scrutinize the organizational slack in substantive cotext of organization. To do so, using the emergent approach of grounded theory, 16 comprehensive interviews were conducted with the managerial system of a number of private industries in the province of Khorasan Razavi. The findings of data analysis which were undertaken by constant comparison in coding exercises provided 713 codes, 34 concepts and 6 categories which emerged the research model regarding the main category, titled "Nourishing employees with slack services and opportunities". The model refers to the causes, covariance, conditions, contingencies and the consequences of the main category and the context of the research namely "The 6C's family" in the emergent approach. To sum up, this study identified new perspective of organizational slack and explained "Organizational Metastimuli" theory which fills some lacunae surrounding organizational slack.