Employees’ reactance and survival strategies in an underperforming Zimbabwean parastatal
This research is an analysis of employees’ survival strategies in an under-performing Zimbabwean parastatal. It argues that employees’ survival strategies may evidence failure of an organisation to accommodate changing realities under conditions of distress. The prevailing economic conditions in...
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| Language: | English |
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Academic Journals
2023
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| Online Access: | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5711 |
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| Summary: | This research is an analysis of employees’ survival strategies in an under-performing Zimbabwean
parastatal. It argues that employees’ survival strategies may evidence failure of an organisation to
accommodate changing realities under conditions of distress. The prevailing economic conditions in
Zimbabwe may discourage employees from switching jobs even though they are not paid by their
employer so that they pursue compensatory actions to survive. This study is based on qualitative
research conducted among employees in a Zimbabwean parastatal, which has been struck in perennial
performance challenges resulting in its failure to consistently fulfil its obligations to employees as
evidenced by delays in salary payments, acute shortages of tools and poor labour relations in general.
Employees have resultantly resorted to alternative survival means, such as theft, fabricating leave,
moonlighting, including refusal to leave company’s accommodation facilities. They perceive that
management is ignorant of their plights, and their interests in formal collective job actions are eroded
as they seem to be flogging a dead horse. These employees’ survival strategies are believed to drain
the entity’s depreciating resources, with the further milking likely to have ruinous consequences. Most
of these strategies are pursued in subtle and unobservable ways to evade immediate management
action. |
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