A study of relationship between perceptions of social ineqality, social loafing, job stress and job satisfaction among the personnels of Islamic azad university Islamshahr branch

Subject Areas : Business Management

Saeid Najarpour Ostadi ¹ , Alireza Agdamibaher ² , AsadAllah Khadivi ³

1 - Faculty Member, Department of Educational Sciences, Shabestar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Iran
2 - Faculty Member, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shabestar, Tabriz
3 - Associate Professor of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Applied Sciences Tabriz

Received: 2015-12-28 Accepted : 2015-12-28 Published : 2008-11-21

Keywords: Job Stress, Job satisfaction, Social Inequality perception, Social Loafing, Type of Employement, academic degree,

Abstract :

The aim of the paper is to study the relationship between perception of social inequality, social loafing,job stress and job satisfaction among the personnels of Islamic Azad university-Islamshahr branch.The statistical population was 175 people: 77 official employees, 72 temporary contract-based employees and 26 pemanent contract- based employees were selected through random stratified method.The data were collected through two standard questionnaires,namly spector’s job satisfaction, Davis and et.al.job stress,and two researcher made questionnaires regarding social inequality perception, and social loafing.All the tools enjoyed a desirable reliability.The test of hypotheses showed that there is relationship between each of the variables of hypotheses showed that there is relationship between each of the variables of social inequality perception,social loafing,job stress and job satisfaction.It was also determined that 33.190 job satisfaction variance results from the studied variables.It became clear that the type of employment,academic degree and their interaction has a significant effect on job satisfaction.The effect of academic degree is more than that of other variables.Each of the job stress,social inequality,social loafing,type of employment and academic degree variables had separate effects.job stress of temporary contract-based employees and official employees is more than that of the permanent contract-based employees.Job stress among the employees with bachelor degree is more than that of other employees and it became clear that the rate of loafing among the employees with bachelor degrees is more than that of the other personnels.

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