Work and Identity (Case study: Employees of industrial-mineral complexes of Gol Gohar, Sirjan, Iran)

Abstract

Industrial, mining, and production activities have socio-cultural aspects in addition to physical and material aspects. Modern work is a social phenomenon even more work of communities, which has lagged technical environments and pre-modern mechanisms and less separated from their social environment. Social organization of work is one of the concepts, which has different definitions and scope of application in various fields such as management, social science, and sociology. Social organization of work has two aspects, formal and informal. Identity is one of the most important social structures that affect all aspects of people's lives directly and indirectly according to its nature and structure. This article examines the relationship between social organization of work and identity in mineral and industrial complex of Gol Gohar in Sirjan. Necessary information for this research achieved by scrolling method of a sample including 400 people in Gol Gohar Iron Ore complex and its affiliates, including Gohar company with 2000, Jahadnasr with 1500, Pamidoo with 500 employees, and almost close to 4805 people and obtained by simple random sampling. Pearson correlation and multiple regression used to analyze the data. Regression analysis shows that the informal social organization and formal social organization variables had a significant positive relationship with staff identity.