Sustainability Reporting and Economic Satisfaction in Petrochemical Companies

Abstract

Sustainability reporting refers to non-financial reporting, while economic satisfaction deals with materialistic aspects of work life. This study sheds light on the relationship between economic satisfaction and sustainability reporting and the way to balance them in the petrochemical companies. In this regard, a descriptive-survey analysis was conducted. A total number of 86 employees in the accounting, economic, HSE, sales, quality and production departments of the petrochemical companies were selected as the research sample size and the questionnaires were distributed among them. The cluster sampling method was adopted and the data required for examining the seven hypotheses of this study were collected. Through using questionnaires, the reliability and validity of the questions were confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.82 Research hypotheses were analyzed by using Pearson's test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test. The results showed that there are relationships between different aspects of the economic satisfaction and sustainability reporting within petrochemical companies