The Relationship between Informal Learning, Burn out, Mental Health and Job Satisfaction among Workers of Esfahan Steel Company

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between informal learning، job satisfaction، burn out and mental health among workers of Esfahan Steel Company. The research approach is typically descriptive and causal - solidarity and for data analysis and syntheses، descriptive statistics solution have been used including mean value، standard deviation and frequency percentages and the inferential statistics solutions included multiple correlation coefficient، Pearson correlation، multivariate analysis of variance and path analysis. In this study، the correlation between informal learning and job satisfaction and the correlation between burn out and job satisfaction level have been found significant at P 0. 01. The correlation coefficient between burn out and mental health as well as mental health and job satisfaction have not been found as significant. Findings imply that burnout and informal learning can predict job satisfaction. Norelation ship has been observed between informal learning and burn out and between informal learning and mental health، while the relationships between informal learning and job satisfaction and between burn out and job satisfaction have been confirmed. The conceptual model of research has been evaluated using path analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Findings denote the direct effect of informal learning on job satisfaction and indirect effect of burn out on job satisfaction. Referring to the Structural Equation Modeling، among three main paths، the effect of informal learning and burn out on job satisfaction has been observed and it has been found that mental health has no effect on job satisfaction. Major limitation of this research is related to generalization of findings to other steel manufacturing companies، industries and public organizations.