Designing a Model of Antecedents and Consequences of workplace Boredom Using a Fuzzy Cognitive Map Approach

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1 : Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

2 PhD student in public Administraion, Faculty of Management, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

10.48308/jcoc.2026.242895.1550

Abstract

Objective: The present study aimed to design a model of the antecedents and consequences of boredom in the workplace in government organizations.

Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive and exploratory in terms of data collection method, and it is also classified as mixed research in terms of typology. The statistical population of the research includes professors of Lorestan University and senior managers of government organizations in Lorestan province, 25 of whom were selected using purposive sampling method and based on the principle of theoretical adequacy. In the qualitative part, the data collection tool is a semi-structured interview, whose validity and reliability were confirmed using content validity and intra-coder and inter-coder methods, respectively. In the quantitative part, the data collection tool is a questionnaire, which was confirmed using content validity and test-retest reliability. Also, the data obtained from the interview were identified using MaxQDA software and the coding method, the antecedents and consequences of boredom in the workplace. In the quantitative part of the research, a causal relationship model was presented using the fuzzy cartographic method.

Findings: The results of the study indicate that among the antecedents, lack of job autonomy, with the highest degree of centrality, was identified as the most important antecedent, and also among the consequences, increased evasion and evasion of responsibility by employees, with the highest degree of centrality, was identified as the most important consequence of boredom in the workplace.

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Career and Organizational Counseling

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Available Online from 15 April 2026

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