Analysis the Model of Employees' Leisure Time Management at the Workplace in Mix Method Approach

Abstract

The present study aims to explain the model for employees' leisure management at the Workplace using the mix method approach and systematic grounded theory in its qualitative aspect. To this end, besides open interviewing with 16 university experts and managers of the selected hospitals in Shiraz City, a set of initial themes were collected via open coding process and some categories were extracted. Then, the connection among these categories was determined in axial coding stage under the titles such as causal conditions, the central phenomenon, strategies, intervening conditions, ground conditions, and consequences of leisure management in the framework of coding paradigm. In the selective coding stage, each element of the coding paradigm was explained and the model for employees' leisure management at the workplace was created. The fitness and existing relationship of that qualitative pattern are evaluated with Amos 22 software with structural equation pattern and it is confirmed at the end.

Keywords

• "leisure time"
• "leisure activities"
• "leisure management"
• "grounded theory "