Meta-Analyzing and Relation-Finding of the Results of Organizational Health

The ability of the organization to maintain its survival and adaptation to the environment is a key capability whose results have been studied in various studies. This study aimed to systematically and comprehensively study the results of these studies and to identify the causal relationships between them.

This is descriptive, applied and quantitative research. In the present study, the consequences of organizational health were first identified and extracted from 28 articles published in scientific-research journals from 2008 to 2019 by meta-analysis method. In the next step, the mentioned results were determined using the structural interpretive modelling technique and based on the opinions of 12 faculty members of Shahid Sattari Aeronautical University, ranking and modelling the relations between them.

According to the research findings, Organizational health had a significant effect size on all 20 outcomes studied. These outcomes were classified into three categories with high, medium and low effect sizes. Among these, the highest effect was related to the variables of human resource productivity, employee creativity, organizational effectiveness, job attachment, organizational citizenship behaviour, organizational entrepreneurship and employee empowerment, respectively. In addition, causal relationships between these factors were also shown at four levels, so that employee empowerment has the most impact and organizational effectiveness has the most impact.

Managers' efforts to promote organizational health will lead to a chain of constructive human and organizational achievements that can strengthen each other to provide a facilitating environment for the sustainable productivity of organizations.