Employees Organizational Comfort Theorizing in the Workplace Based on the Grounded Theory Analysis

Employee comfort as one of the factors of organizational effectiveness has a favorable effect on the life and productivity of organizations. The purpose of this study was to design a model of organizational comfort for employees in the workplace in the judiciary of Khuzestan province.

This study was fundamental-applied in terms of purpose and was a type of qualitative research conducted using data-based theory. The study's statistical population was experts (managers and experts) in the field of human resource management of justice in Khuzestan province (222 people) and 6 professors of management at Lorestan University. Research data were collected through interviews with 19 people (based on the principle of theoretical adequacy). The result of these interviews was a set of essential topics that were collected during the open coding process and categories were extracted from them, then in the axial coding stage, the link between these categories was determined.

The results showed that the causal factors included individual abilities and skills, spirituality, family role and emotional intelligence; Workplace fitness, psychological environment, workplace health and effective management were the contextual factors and job constraints, intra-organizational and extra-organizational constraints were the interfering factors of employees’ organizational comfort. The results also showed that strategies for creating organizational comfort include organizational support, ergonomic workplace design, organizational partnership, work quality improvement and strategic human resource management that ultimately have individual and organizational consequences.

The results of the study emphasize the attention to the work environment and the overall comfort of the employees of the judiciary due to the importance of their job to fulfil the rights of individuals in society.