International Journals Of Research in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Open Access
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 3

The Impact of Organizational Factors on Improving Knowledge Workers’ Productivity in Iran

  • Author:
  • Maryam Mohebbi1,, Alireza Shakibaeefar2, Ahmad Alamdari3, Meysam Alamdari4
  • Total Page Count: 19
  • Page Number: 13 to 31

1M.A Student, Industrial Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Fars, Iran

2M.A Student, Human Resource Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Astara, Iran

3M.A Student, Financial Management, Islamic Azad University, Dehaghan, Iran

4Master, Human Resource Management, Lecturer, Payam Noor University, Iran

*Corresponding author. E-mail address: Mohebbimaryam@ymail.com

Online published on 24 October, 2013.

Abstract

Due to the increasing role and importance of knowledge workers in organizations and the vital role that they play in promoting the national production level, the present study has been done, aiming at “measuring organizational factors’ impacts on the improvement of knowledge workers productivity” with a descriptive-quantitative methodology. 90 experts in the Staff Department of Shiraz Industrial City were selected though a census and answered the questionnaires. And the reliability had been confirmed by Cronbrach's alpha coefficient. One-sample T-test and Freidman test were used for data analysis. The T-test results indicated that all the human variables (i.e. partnership, motivation, instruction, and organizational communication) were effective in enhancing knowledge workers productivity in Shiraz Industrial City. Showing the respondents’ replies significance, T-test results ranked the organizational factors priority in the following order: motivation, partnership, instruction, and organizational communication.

Keywords

Productivity, Knowledge Workers, Organizational Factors, Shiraz Industrial City