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This research focuses on full-time faculty members of higher educational institutes in Pakistan, where the dilemma of workplace incivility is present, which requires attention to solve. This research addresses critical issues that have yet to be adequately addressed. It describes how full-time faculty members of Pakistan's higher educational institutes experienced incivility, how it effects and what are the coping strategies for workplace incivility. Incivility research has primarily relied on quantitative methodologies to comprehend incivility encounters. However, using qualitative approaches would supplement the quantitative knowledge and maybe shift the topic of study in new directions. The descriptive phenomenological method effectively portrays the events as seen by the employees. The interview questions will include conversations about an uncivil occurrence and their thoughts, feelings, and behaviour during and after the event. The phenomenological technique, guided by interpretivism and constructionism, will adopted for this study's goal. This strategy assisted in illuminating and comprehending the lived experiences stated by faculty members who took part in this study. 10-20 faculty members from different universities will be taken and given detailed accounts of their encounters with workplace incivility. To explore a critical trend that university administrators must recognize since incivility is on the rise and challenging to combat with current regulations. As a result, this study will identify particular actions that faculty at Pakistani Higher Educational Institutions view as workplace incivility (HEIs) and focuses on the coping strategies as well. This study will use Social Network Theory as a theoretical framework for comprehending and investigating disrespect in Pakistani higher education institutions. The transcripts from the participant's interviews will analyze using a phenomenological method, through Atlas ti, yielding several identified themes.
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To Cite this Article: Anwaar, S., Yusof, Y. B., & Ghazalli, F. S. binti M. (2022). A Great Dilemma of Workplace Incivility Facing by Faculty Members of Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan: A Conceptual Paper. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(9), 1593 – 1605.
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