The Culture of Job Productivity (Investigating the Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction among the Graduates of Economics)

Productivity and job satisfaction are among the important factors that should receive attention regarding development. Researches about the history of development and revolution of the industrial nations show that, the skillful and trained manpower has had an undeniable effect in changing the traditional societies into industrial ones.
Considering the significance of the subject matter, the present study has investigated the job position of a group of the graduates of economics, with regarding to the jobs that they were holding it was to investigate how much they liked or enjoyed their jobs. In this article, based on the nature of the study, the descriptive -inferential method was used and Chi-Square test was also used for data analysis.
The results of the study show that among the graduates of economics who have occupation in their own field, the expectation of income and position is not proportionate to their skills, and that results job dissatisfaction among them. That in return results in low occupational productivity among some of these graduates. Since the applied aspect of their job is considered more important and the productivity is paid more attention, they experience having low status in society.