Author(s)

Lingshan Meng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, 100070, China

Corresponding Author

Lingshan Meng

ABSTRACT

Business operations are dependent on employee performance, and in this highly competitive environment, employees are under tremendous pressure to slack off. Effectively identifying the factors affecting employee slack can help companies to be efficient and profitable. In this paper, we use a literature review to identify 15 causes of employee slack in enterprises from three dimensions. On this basis, ISM (Interpretative Structural Modeling Method) and MICMAC (Matrice d'Impacts Croisés-Multiplication Appliquée, à un Classement) models were established to analyze and categorize the causes of slackness from the perspective of system engineering. The results show that the accelerated social development and industry recession are found to be the core chain causes of employee slacking; seven causes, such as excessive work requirements, inflexible work mechanism, and negative corporate culture, are identified as the linkage factors of employee slacking. This paper effectively reveals the key causal factors of employee slackness and provides a methodology for the sustainable development of enterprises.

KEYWORDS

ISM, MICMAC, Employee Slacking, Causal classification, System engineering

CITE THIS PAPER

Lingshan Meng, Identification and Path Analysis of Employee Slacking Factors in Enterprises from a Systems Engineering Perspective. Journal of Human Resource Development (2023) Vol. 5: 131-141. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhrd.2023.050619.

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