Get vaccinated or else…employees’ perspective on mandatory vaccination in the retail sector in Zimbabwe

Frontiers in Psychology

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Martha Mapuranga¹  Farai Maunganidze¹  Shaun Ruggunan¹ 

[1] School of Management, IT and Governance, College of Law and Management, University of KwaZulu Natal

关键词: COVID-19;    Vaccinated;    Employees;    Retail sector;    perceptions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946454

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The emergence of COVID-19 has resulted in many changes in the world of work. Measures such as remote working, physical distancing, compulsory use of face masks, sanitasation among others. With time, a number of medical interventions to deal with the pandemic were developed and availed. Zimbabwe’s retail sector was not spared of different vaccines which were meant to curb the virus. Most Zimbabwean organisations made it mandatory for their employees to get vaccinated or risked losing employment. However, less is known about the perceptions of employees towards voluntary vaccination. This gap is especially concerning given the strategic nature of employees in an organisation. This paper poses the following questions (1) to what extent were employees consulted on the compulsory vaccination? (2) What are the employees’ perceptions towards compulsory vaccination? (3) How are employees coping with the mandatory vaccination? In addressing these questions, the paper uses phenomenological approach to empirically ground its arguments. Twenty shopfloor employees from two major retail outlets were purposively sampled and interviewed. The paper argues that employees have a right to bee involved in issues that concern them. The study has established that employees were not consulted and most of them did not subscribe to mandatory vaccination. Furthermore, it has come to the fore that employees are generally not passive recipients of policies, they usually have their own ways of settling their grievances, especially if they feel they were not consulted on issues that pertains them.

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