Social Norms Conformity Rates and Job Satisfaction Case of Teachers in Mashhad City

The paper aims to study the relationship between conforming to social norms and job satisfaction of the teachers working in the city of Mashhad. Social norms are regulations and expectations that guide behavior of the members of a society. The act of observing social norms results in an increased rate of social support, cooperation and participation in common activities and paves the way toward achieving the organizational goals, which in turn results in job satisfaction of the members. This is a cross-sectional survey-method research. The sample size, in accordance with Cochran formula, is 298 teachers, and sampling technique is proportional classification. The data was collected by the standard job satisfaction questionnaire (Brayfild & Rothe) that measured validity via content validity technique. The reliability was measured by chronbach's alpha. The findings showed that the median for scores of social norms observance was 70.5 and for job satisfaction it was 68.54. The variable of marriage, teaching level, social norms and also its dimensions had meaningful relationships with jobs satisfaction. There were not found any meaningful relationships between the variables of sex, age and the level of education with job satisfaction. The regression analysis showed that the variables of work background, sex, common action, the sense of efficiency and life value, explained 18 percent of job satisfaction variation.