Effects of Religious Attitudes on the Social Responsibility of the Employees of Kermanshah Oil Company

Religious attitudes of an organization’s employees can be considered as effective strategies to decrease social inequality between rich and poor people. On the other hand, these attitudes can increase the feeling of social responsibility. Religiousness has a solidarity function and can enhance the solidarity of employees and this solidarity is more with those that observe an organization’s ethical codes. Therefore, they are more cooperative with and feel more responsibility towards them. This study aims to investigate the effects of Kermanshah oil company employees’ religious attitudes on their social responsibility. This is a survey study. The target population consisted of all the employees of oil product distribution company and refinery and pipe line of Kermanshah of which 400 individuals were selected via systematic and simple random sampling. A Likert-type questionnaire was used to collect the needed data. Research findings showed that the average number of social responsible of the employees is equal to 83.5, which is lower than the expected average(105) and shows that employees in this organization have relatively low sense of social responsibility. Research findings also showed that religious attitudes in the dimensions of religious cognition and religious beliefs were significantly related to social responsibility in the dimensions of legal, economic, moral, and altruism. Religious attitudes in the dimension of religious behavior was significantly related to social responsibility in the dimensions of legal, moral, and altruism but not in the dimension of economic. In sum, employees’ religious attitudes were 0.85 related to social responsibility and this association was statistically significant.