International Journal of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 2

Investigate Effect of Islamic Work Ethics on Achievement Motivation

  • Author:
  • Javad Vali-e-Asla,, Mojtaba Gharibib, Ehsan Delavizc, Hamid Reza Cheraghid, Abolfazl Haji Gholame
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 120 to 130

aMaster student of Public Administration, Tarbiat Modares university, Tehran, Iran

bMaster student of Public Administration, university of shahid beheshti, Tehran, Iran

cMaster student of Management, Islamic Azad University, Gachsaran branch, Gachsaran, Iran

dMaster student of Public Administration, Islamic Azad University, central Tehran branch, Tehran, Iran

eMaster student of social communication sciences, Islamic Azad University, Yazd branch, Yazd, Iran

*Corresponding author. E-mail address: j.valiasl@gmail.com

Online published on 19 June, 2015.

Abstract

Attention to role of moral and ethical values always has been in different fields of life in human history. it was mainly because that human nature have an undeniable tendency to divine and human values. Islamic work ethic is one of the concepts that have been studied by many researchers in recent years. The aim of this article is, determine the relationship between Islamic work ethic and achievement motivation. in this study it is assumed that people who have high achievement motivation, have a more emphasis in values of Islamic work ethic therefore, this paper tries to examine the relationship between these two concepts. The research data collected through questionnaire and among 244 people of teachers of girlie schools in Eslamshahr in Iran. to test of hypotheses, the spearman correlation test to assess correlations was used and than for measure of casual relations between variables regression was used. Research findings suggest that there is a significant and positive correlation between achievement motivation and Islamic work ethic and its six dimensions.

Keywords

Achievement motivation, Islamic work ethic, Iran