Explaining work ethic among Iranians as a roadmap for the declaration of the second step of the revolution
Subject Areas : Human resources management
Taha Ashayeri
1
(Associate Professor, Faculty member, Department of History and Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Tabriz, Iran.)
Tahereh Jahanparvar
2
(PhD student in Cultural Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran.)
Seyed Kazem Kazemi
3
(Master of Educational Management, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran.)
Keywords: Social trust, work ethic, Governance, collective spirit, job participation,
Abstract :
Work ethic is a person's moral responsibility in terms of job in the organization, which has characteristics such as: hard work, respect for work and effort, spirit of cooperation and participation in work, belonging and commitment to work and job duties, responsibility, saving resources, Creativity and initiative, self-control and mastery of work, order and accuracy in work, punctuality and cheerfulness, honesty and avoidance of fraud and economic corruption. Compared to the international community, Iranian society faces economic problems, instability, high prices, high inflation, and class divisions. These issues are mostly related to internal cultural factors such as ethics. The present article seeks to study the roots of the factors affecting work ethic in Iranian society, which has been done by survey method. The statistical population of the study includes 38 cases, 21 of which were deliberately selected by observing the validity of the research and the quality of the publication and the authors. The results of this study show that the level of work ethic is at three levels high (31%), medium (15%) and low (54%) and in general, the level of work ethic in Iran is low. Also, there is a significant relationship between job, psychological, religious, commitment, organizational, governance, justice and social capital factors with work ethic.
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_||_Abrun, F., Safiri, K., & Mirzaei, K. (2020). Sociological analysis of the role of comparative dissatisfaction in creating job idleness Journal of Iranian Social Development Studies 12(3). https://journals.srbiau.ac.ir/article_16098_0818aa57afa1a894520bd97d9cde8a2e.pdf (In Persian)
Aqsami, M. (2014). Investigating the mediating role of work ethic with organizational culture and teaching quality of high school teachers in Marvdasht Islamic Azad University]. Marvdasht Branch. (In Persian)
Aron, R. (1984). Basic stages of thought in sociology (B. Parham, Trans.). Islamic Revolution Education Publishing Organization., Tehran. (In Persian)
Azar, A., & Gheitasi, F. (2010). Ethics in Management Science. Ethics Quarterly in Science and Technology, 3(1 and 2), 61-70. (In Persian)
Chalabi, M. (1993). Social Consensus. Social Science Letter, 2(3), 15-28. (In Persian)
Cherington, D., J. (1980). The Work Ethic: Working Values and Value that Work. AMACOM, New York.
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Epstein, J. M., & Axtell, R. L. (1996). Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up. MIT Press, Cambridge.
Farhoud, D. (2011). Ethics Education. Ethics Quarterly in Science and Technology, 6(3), 1-5. (In Persian)
Garavand, A., Moosivand, M., & Viseh, S. M. (2015). Examination of the Relationship between Social Capital and Job Performanceamong Professors of Lorestan Payame Noor University. Quarterly Journal of Islam and Social Studies, 4(1), 38-63. (In Persian)
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Hajizadeh Meymandi, M. (1998). Sociology of work. Institute of Labor and Social Security, Tehran. (In Persian)
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Kamali, A., Mousavi Khameneh, M., & Azimi Safinsara, R. (2018). Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Social Capital and Work Ethics among Employees of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Quarterly Journal of Economic Sociology and Development, 6(2), 117-131. (In Persian)
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Najafi, M., Karimi, M., Qahramani Fard, A., & Rezvani, S. M. (2007). Investigating the Relationship between the Dimensions of Ethical Atmosphere and Job Satisfaction among the Employees of Education Departments of Isfahan. New Educational Approaches, 5(2), 21-22. (In Persian)
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Zolfaghari, A., & Mohebbi, A. (2014). Types of religiosity and work ethic. Culture Strategy, 26, 148-177. (In Persian)