Abstract:
Purpose: The current research study investigated the consequence of workplace ostracism on
employee work engagement, stress and acquiescence silence on an employee in the
organizations of Pakistan. The study considered work ostracism as independent variable while
employee work engagement, stress and acquiescence silence as dependent variables.
Methodology and Design: The study used with quantitative and deductive approach. The study
considered on cause and effect based investigation of phenomenon. The study selected with
primary responses as data and used with questionnaire as data collection instrument. The
questionnaire is developed on Likert Scale (ranging from 1 to 5). The study used with survey
as data collection method. The study used with convenience sapling approach. The study
selected with a sample size of 300 for the study. The collected data for the study applied with
descriptive statistics, reliability test, Pearson correlation and regression analysis.
Findings: The results ofthe study clearly revealed with positive correlation of work ostracism
to employee work engagement, stress and acquiescence silence in case of organizational
functional in Pakistan. Hypotheses HI and H3 got accepted while H2 got rejected at 5 percent
level ofsignificance.
Limitation: Time, knowledge and human resource factors observed as major challenges.
Recommendations: The human resource function of an organization need to practices with
employee engagement practices to overcome the expansion and spread of Ostracism in work
cultural and reduce existing level with social interaction among employees. HR need to bring
up with ethical training for employees and reward employees also on their work behavior within
the work environment. The management of an organization also need to bring up with effective
communication within organization to ensure openness for employee to discussion things
openly.
