Do Components of Psychological Healthy work Place Predict Dimensions of Job Alienation?

The main purpose of this research was to study the relationship between psychological healthy work place' components (opportunity for control, opportunity for skill use, externally generated goals, environmental variety, environmental clarity, availability of money, physical security, opportunity for interpersonal contact, valued social position) and job alienation’ dimensions (cultural estrangement, powerlessness, normlessness, estrangement from work, social isolation, meaninglessness). Research method was descriptive correlational and statistical population included all of administrative staff of the one public university in Tehran, out of them 151 subjects, were selected via stratified convenience sampling. In this research a set of questionnaires consisting of psychological healthy workplace which developed by Mehdad et al (2011) and job alienation questionnaire (Boeree, 2001) were used. Data were analyzed using of canonical correlation analysis and results showed that there are high canonical correlation (0/975) between psychological healthy work place' components and job alienation’ dimensions. Pair of canonical variables showed that (except meaninglessness) all dimensions of job alienation, except meaninglessness, can be explained by environmental clarity. Moreover, there exist the strongest relationship between environmental clarity, from independent variables (with 0/995 standard canonical correlation) and normlessness, from dependent variables (with -0/997 standard canonical correlation). In conclusion, employees’ job alienation decreases with increasing psychological healthy work place components and gradually dissolves.