Semantic Reconstruction of Employee Energy in Public Organizations

The thoughts and feelings of employees, which are referred to as employee energy (EE), play an important role in shaping the performance of employees in the workplace. Therefore,  This concept has become a new goal in the field of organizational knowledge. Hence, this study is operated to design a conceptual framework for the semantic reconstruction of employee energy in public organizations. The study method is pursued as a Grounded Theory (GT), in which selective, axial, and open coding analyses were completed based on the Strauss and Corbin method. Data were gathered from semi-structured interviews. Using purposive sampling, the contributors included (N=20) experts and managers of public organizations, and interviews followed until the point of theoretical saturation. The obtained data were extracted from 283 primary codes, 97 concepts, 18 subcategories, and 6 categories. The analysis of this study showed that the central phenomenon is the energy of employees in the process was identified from causal conditions (Psychological characteristics, Healthy lifestyle, Genetics, Effective communication, Managerial leadership style, Job characteristics, and Quality of working life), contextual conditions (Dynamics of the economic, the political, the social, the cultural systems, and Technological developments), intervening conditions (Age, Gender, Education, Work experience, Type of employment); strategies (Psychological development, Health improvement, Social network development), and consequences (Instrumental, ultimate).