Identification of Effective Factors on Employee Productivity in A Military Health Organization

Nowadays, determining factors affecting employee productivity is considered a necessity in the development of governmental organizations’ human resources. The goal of this study was to identify factors influencing the productivity of human resources in a military health organization.
This descriptive study was performed in a military health organization in 2016. This study included two steps. In the first step, a literature review was conducted to identify factors affecting productivity, and in the second step, to verify the findings of the literature review, the same factors were reassessed by technical experts in different departments of the community headquarters and exploratory factor analysis was performed. Forty technical experts were selected using purposeful sampling for participation in the study. The data collection tool was a questionnaire developed by the investigators. The data was analyzed using SPSS 20.
In the first step, we identified 11 factors affecting productivity including motivation, mental intellectual growth, individual health, ability, organizational support, job resolution, environment, management style, education, culture, and performance evaluation. The findings of the second step showed that the exploratory results confirmed the findings of the literature review and were consistent with them. Finally, the components were divided into two distinct dimensions that included individual factors (motivation, mental intellectual growth, individual health, ability) and organizational environmental factors (organizational support, job clarity, environment, management style, education, culture, and performance evaluation).
Employee productivity is affected by individual and organizational factors. Therefore, strengthening these factors will increase the productivity of employees. Special attention should be paid to motivation and organizational support.