Investigating the concept of " meaningful work " in the oil industry

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Authors

1 univresity of hormozgan, management faculty.faculty member

2 Department of Industrial Management, Hormozgan University

3 Master's student in business administration of Hormozgan University

10.22080/shrm.2024.4834

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the concept of "meaningful work" in the oil industry (Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company). The research is based on the nature of the purpose and qualitative in terms of the method of data collection and the meta-synthesis and Delphi strategy has been used. The identified components were ranked using the best and worst method. The statistical population of the research in meta-synthesis section includes articles related to work with meaning, published in the period 2010 to 2021 and in Delphi section Twenty managers of Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company were selected by purposive sampling. The results show that the concept of meaningful work consists of three levels of individual with 5 components, the internal level with 8 components and the external level of the organization with 5 components. Also, based on the results of the research, it can be stated that the internal level with the score of 0.42 is the highest priority and then the individual level with a score of .30. The second priority and the external level of the organization with a score of 0.28 are placed in the third priority. Considering the importance of ethnic, religious, religious and level feeling of managers with the company's employees, it is suggested that while paying attention to equality and justice to various indigenous and non-native forces, programs whereby employees feel more comfortable and close to managers be placed on the agenda of management.

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