Investigating the relationship between productivity factors and performance of organizations by considering environmental indicators based on ISO 14001 standard
Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2017, Pages 140-158
Amir Bahrami, Bakhtiar Ostadi
Abstract Productivity and related indicators are very important for organizations because of their direct impact on the performance and efficiency of the organization. Today, companies and organizations attach great importance to the discussion of the environment and the standards in this field to gain a competitive advantage. In the field of environmental environment, the ISO 14001 standard is proposed. In this article, first, each of the concepts of productivity and environment is examined separately, then the dimensions and criteria of each of them are extracted. Accordingly, 20 indicators for productivity and 13 indicators for the environment have been extracted from articles and books. This article has been done in two methods of descriptive and exploratory study. In the descriptive study, the indicators and concepts affecting the two issues of productivity and environment have been extracted separately and the exploratory study has expressed the relationship between the concepts and indicators proposed in the two areas of productivity and biology. Environment, which is taken from the literature review and according to the concepts and issues raised, questionnaires were developed to find a meaningful relationship between the two issues of productivity and environmental life, which were distributed among industry experts and the university. And the results were collected and using t-test at the level of α = 0.05, we were able to extract the relevant indicators and among them, the indicators that have a stronger relationship in different areas were identified.