Career Anchors among the Personnel of Esfahan's Iron Foundry Organization

The main purpose of this study was to study the relation between quality of work life and four career anchors among the personnel of Isfahan’s iron foundry organization. The descriptive correlation method was used in this research. The population was all the personnel of iron foundry organization in Isfahan including 1200 managers, experts and staffs of the organization which 400 personnel were selected as the sample by cluster sampling method. The research instruments were two questionnaires made by the researcher. The quality of work life questionnaire was devised based on Richard Walton model and had 48 items; the career anchors questionnaire was devised based on Edgar Shine model and had 40 items including four anchors: exploring, establishing, maintaining, and retiring. These two questionnaires utilized a Li kert-type 5 point scale. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the experts and Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency reliability estimate for quality of work life was 0.79 and for career anchors was 0.89. The research data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient, one – way ANOVA, and step by step regression. Findings showed that social dependence; social integrity in work organization, obeying the law in organization, and life general atmosphere has a significant difference among eight factors of quality of work life. In other word, social dependence, social integrity in work organization, obeying the law in organization, and life general atmosphere had effect on the four career anchors while the other factors have no significant effect on the four career anchors. Moreover, it could be mentioned that the quality of work life in any career anchors of the personnel of iron foundry organization was at the average level.