Sociological explanation of work ethic (Case study: Employees of the Ministry of Cooperation، Labor and Social Welfare in 1399)

The main objectives of the present study are to measure the level of personnel’s working conscience, identify effective social factors affecting work conscience and offering solutions to managers in order to increase working conscience of employees working in the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. The study used survey methodology. In order to assess validity of the measurement tools, we resort to two methods of content validity (face validity) and construct validity (confirmatory factor analysis), and after assessing reliability, the final questionnaire is offered. Statistical population of the whole personnel working in the Ministry are 1426 participants which is got from cochran formula. In order to further ensure volume of samples 400 participants are selected. The questionnaires are consisted of 131 open- and closed-ended questions distributed among the personnel that are selected according to the systematic random sampling. After collecting the information, SPSS and LISREL software are used to analyze the data. In the inferential findings section, in order to investigate dependent and independent variables, parametric test of Pearson correlation coefficient, linear regression and path analysis are used. Considering the data scale, in order to test some hypotheses mentioned in the study, Chi-square test is used. It is suggested that the level of working conscience among the personnel of Ministry of Cooperatives Labor and Social Welfare is high. Applying multiple linear regression suggests that total sum of independent variables enables us to explain the change in personnel’s working conscience, and the variables including
job satisfaction, the participation of personnel, alienation from work, division of labor, organizational justice and job promotion are considered some elements that affect working conscience of personnel.