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Attitude to Labor among Learners of Industrial Colleges in Russia, China and Iran
Lyudmila N. Zakharova
Head of Department of Management Psychology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Gagarin Ave., Nizhny Novgorod 603022, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Psychol.), Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8244-2114, Scopus ID: 56964791900, Researcher ID: T-2222-2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Zaretkhan H. Saralieva
Professor of the Department of General Sociology and Social Work, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Gagarin Ave., Nizhny Novgorod 603022, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (History), Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4825-1584, Scopus ID: 56112722400, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Zahra Ghadbeigi
PhD student of the Department of Management Psychology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Gagarin Ave., Nizhny Novgorod 603022, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8229-5006, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Liuchuan Zhu
M.A. in Psychology of the Department of Management Psychology, National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (23 Gagarin Ave., Nizhny Novgorod 603022, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-3451, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Introduction. A contradiction which we are able to observe over a few recent decades between necessity to participate in innovative processes and their natural stressogenic character has underlined the importance of developing programs for proactive organizational socialization which will be capable of building up successful behavior competences in VUCA environment in Industry 4.0. When self-actualization in labor is being devalued, attitude to labor is now considered as a key competence. Purpose: to reveal features of attitude to labor as a basis of professional socialization of learners studying at industrial colleges in countries which are now entering the new technological reality with a different degree of success: Russia, China and Iran.
Materials and Methods. The analysis draws on the data obtained with WorkBAT method developed by J. Spence and A. Robbins, and their correlation with the values of organizational cultures which are characteristic of industrial colleges. The data on organizational cultures were obtained with OCAI method developed by C. Cameron and R. Quinn.
Results. Russian students do not feel the changed nature of labor, their attitude to it is substituted by a wish to strengthen clan-based and loosen hierarchical components of the organizational cultures. Iranian students have a negative attitude to labor in a real hierarchical environment and a positive attitude to it in an innovative market environment, which suggests that they would be engaged and emotionally satisfied. Chinese students, having experienced specific organizational cultures of innovative companies in real life, have a positive attitude to labor in a hierarchical environment of stability and certainty.
Discussion and Conclusion. The findings contribute to the development of scientific understanding of the role of value-based work readiness in the turbulent environment of a modern enterprise and the psychological mechanisms of proactive organizational socialization, taking into account socio-cultural country specificity.
Keywords: industry 4.0, industrial colleges, student, organizational culture, values, innovation, attitude to labor, organizational socialization
Conflict of interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Для цитирования: Zakharova L.N., Saralieva Z.H., Ghadbeigi Z., Zhu L. Attitude to Labor among Learners of Industrial Colleges in Russia, China and Iran. Integration of Education. 2022;26(3):418–432. doi: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.108.026.202203.418-432
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 24.04.2022; approved after reviewing 06.06.2022;
accepted for publication 14.06.2022.
Contribution of the authors:
L. N. Zakharova – development of the concept, methodology and design of the empirical part of the study; data collection in Russian industrial colleges; data processing; results analysis.
Z. H. Saralieva – concept development; data analysis; text editing.
Z. Ghadbeigi – literature review; data collection in Iranian industrial colleges; statistical data processing; analysis of results.
L. Zhu – literature review, data collection of industrial colleges in the PRC; statistical processing of data; analysis of results.
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