Occupational Safety with an Inclination towards Security and Health and Its Role in Retaining the Employees of the Regional Electrical Company of Sistan and Baluchistan

Abstract

Nowadays the human force is the main spring of survival of organizations in the arena of competition and organizations by relying on the human resource cause the improvement of their activities in an increasing manner and have active involvements in various markets. The results indicate that even in case the recruiting operation to choose, appointment, training, and other employee-related activities being done in an efficient manner, without diverting sufficient attention to the issue of preserving the obtained results out of exercising management those deeds won’t be so much outstanding. Thus, a special attention should be invested to the issue of retaining the manpower at the organization level. The purpose of present research is to scrutinize and consider the relationship between occupational stresses, safety attitude, organizational health, and job satisfaction in the job area and their role in retaining the employees of the Regional Electrical Company of Sistan and Baluchistan. The method of the research is descriptive-analytical. The statistical universe of the research involves the whole employees of the Regional Electrical Company of Sistan and Baluchistan which their number amounts to three hundred and fifty and at present are on duty and according to Morgan table the number of one hundred and eighty seven of the employees were chosen out of the statistical universe through random sampling method as the research sample. From among one hundred and eighty seven employees as the statistical universe of the research one hundred and fifty individuals participated in answering the whole questions of the questionnaire. The instrument which was used in this research was Graham Lowe’s Healthy Organization Assessment (2010), Job Stress Questionnaire by Moghimi (2011), Safety attitudes Questionnaire by Zaidi (2011), the researcher-made job satisfaction and work environment Questionnaire in relation to research variables are being scrutinized. Validity of the questionnaire was achieved as 0.975. The research data analysis was done at the descriptive and analytical levels. Research findings indicated that there is a direct and meaningful relationship between occupational stress and the safety attitude and the organizational health and job satisfaction and their role in retaining the employees of the organization and according to table of Friedman’s test on retaining the company employees the utmost significance goes to the safety attitude and the least significance goes to occupational stress from among the research variables.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n3s3p288