Authors

• Somayeh Tohidlo ¹
• Alireza Zakeri ²
• Mohsen Jafari Moghadam ³

¹ Faculty member, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

² PhD Student, Tarbiat Modares University

³ M.A Tehran University

Abstract

This paper attempts to study the status of work culture in Iranian organizations (public and private). To understand this situation, Iranian  workers in foreign countries  have been studied, those who have had experience in Iran before leaving the country. we wanted to compare the two situation. The study was conducted on three levels of individual, organizational and macro. Several nterviews are accomplished with the help of Internet  and communication networks. Among the issues that they indicate are injustice, egoism, lack of supportive insurances, lack of prospects and clear vision of  work in future, cultural and social barriers of working, lack of  incentives, social order and the bureaucracy in the organisations. Contrary to the Orientalist viewpoint, which states that components in the long history and the essence of Iranian culture as the obstacles of the formation of the constructive culture of work, this study suggests that,  social and structural factors are the most important barriers. the result is that the same people that are not efficient in iran will be efficient in foriegn countries

Keywords

• Work culture
• Public and private organizations
• Discrimination and injustice
• Egocentric individualism
• Poverty