Investigating the Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and Employee Productivity Behavior with the Mediating Role of Organizational Pessimism

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of organizational pessimism as a mediating variable in the relationship between perceived organizational support and employees' anti-productivity behavior. The research is descriptive-survey in terms of practical purpose and in terms of nature and method of implementation. The statistical population of this study consisted of the staff of the General Office of Standards of Khorasan Razavi, due to the limited statistical population, the census was used. In this study, the Nayr Questionnaire (2013) was used for the organizational support variable, the Kalagan Organizational Pessimism Questionnaire (2009) was used for the organizational pessimism variable, and the Bennett and Robinson (2002) questionnaire was used for the anti-productivity behavior variable. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through face and content validity and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Data were analyzed by correlation test and structural equations using SPSS22 and PLS 3 software. Structural equation modeling findings showed that organizational pessimism mediates the relationship between perceived organizational support and anti-productivity behavior.