The influence of supportive leadership and job characteristics on work alienation: In state-owned and private Iranian banks

This study explores the level of alienation among Iranian employees in state-owned and private bankover a period of 3 years. Based on the employment situation in Iran, employees in state-owned banks were expected to be more alienated from their work than employees in private banks. Survey data have been collected from 320 employees in two state-owned and three private Iranian banks and their branches in 2011 and 2013. The results indicate that employees in state-owned banks are more alienated than their counterparts in private banks. Moreover, while the level of personal alienation has not changed over the 3-year period, social alienation has become more prevalent. Alienation depends on several organization factors like: work experience, age, education and etc. This study examine above factors caused to job alienation of private and state-owned banks of Iran.