Studying Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and Job Performance of Golestan Province Physical Education Teachers

The purpose of this research work was to study the relationship between the perceived organizational support and job performance of Golestan province Physical Education teachers.
The present work was a descriptive research of correlational type, and it was done as a field study. The population of the study consisted of all the Physical Education teachers of the Golestan province (N = 650) whose sample size was determined by the Cochran formula and the random simple sampling method (n = 242). To collect data, questionnaires of perceived organizational support (Yavas & Babakus, 2009) and job performance (Bobbin & Boles, 2004) were used. Also to test the research hypotheses, the Pearson correlation and the multiple regression methods were used.
The findings showed that there were significant and positive correlations among the five dimensions of perceived organizational support and job performance. Also in the regression analyses, the results obtained showed that training and empowerment had the ability to predict the Physical Education teachers’ job performance.
It is recommended to the Golestan province director of education and school principals with proper organizational support of Physical Education teachers’ help to improve the job performance of these teachers.