The Effects of Organizational Commitment on Individual Productivity: The Mediating Role of Motivation and Perceived Organizational Support (in Persian)

Objective: It is expected that organizations appoint people to do their jobs in accordance with the job qualifications and employees are expected to perform their duties at an acceptable quality level. Otherwise, they may pass the time in vain in the workplace; this is an issue that calls forconsideration Taking these into consideration, the analysis of individual productivity and identifying the key variables at stake is an inevitable necessity which is the main goal of the current research. Methodology: The statistical population in this research was the staff of a service company in Tehran, who had defined job duties. Using the available sampling method, ninety-two individuals were selected as the sample, who completed the questionnaires. Content validity of the questionnaire was evaluated using experts' opinions and its reliability was obtained using Cronbach's alpha method. Findings: Results show that the average individual productivity level is 0.53. On this basis, we conclude that the impact of organizational commitment on individual productivity through motivation and perceived organizational support is significant. Originality: No reliable research on the individual productivity of employees exists in Iran. However, in this research we obtained it based on the ratio of useful working hours to standard working hours and investigated the effects of organizational commitment on it using the field research method, which has high reliability.