A Content Analysis of the Supreme Leader's Remarks Concerning Production and Employment with Emphasis on Human Capital

Today, utilizing human capital has become a major concern due to our dealing with economic issues and finding solutions for people's livelihood difficulties. Iran's Supreme Leader has, therefore, time and again focused on employment and boosting production. This article has a quality approach to the issue and adopted content analytical method to identify effective factors on employing human resources in production from the viewpoint of the Supreme Leader. It has considered all the Supreme Leader's remarks concerning production and employment in the years 2008-2018, extracted from www.Khamenei.ir site, counted to be 414. The software used is MAX QDA12 and the validity of research was approved by the experts. After analyzing the speeches, the extracted components were titled as signs, concepts and categories. Here are some of them:  the importance of knowledge-based production, using knowledge-based human resources, workers' position and entrepreneurs' value, utilizing intellectual elites and the relationship between industry and university, using knowledge-based companies, utilizing educated young people, taking advantage of scientific management, solving the workers' problems, facilitating the employment, culture making, creating work interest, empowering the private sector, making small productive firms active, enriching national production, preventing the import and smuggling of the goods, supporting national production by the government, supporting the production by the people, developing the skills and encouraging the entrepreneurs, exploiting individuals' innovation, wealth creation, increasing non-oil exports and economic growth, increasing quality and quantity of production , preventing social damages and reducing unemployment . These concepts were then studied in three categories including the importance, approach, and outcomes of utilizing the human capital in production and employment.