Investigating the Relationship between Fatalism and Human Resource Productivity

Undoubtedly improving productivity and eliminating or neutralizing its obstacles are considered to be an important objective of any organization. Considering these factors (facilitators or barriers to productivity) can help organizations to achieve this goal. The present study attempts to investigate relationship between the dimensions of fatalism with human resources productivity. This research is descriptive - survey and the population are employees of the Ministry of Science¡ Research and Technology. The results show that there is a significant negative correlation between the aspects of fatalism and human resources productivity. Whatever people believe in fate failures and their successes are great¡ they do less effort to achieve success and thus can’t be expected to improve productivity.