Constituents of Productivity in Saadi's Golestan: The Status Quo in Modern Management

Subject Areas : Business Management

Ali  Dehghan ¹ (Associate Professor, Persian Literature Department, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)

Received: 2017-08-05 Accepted : 2018-04-28 Published : 2018-06-22

Keywords: Golestan, Productivity, Management, resources, Saadi,

Abstract :

Productivity refers to attainment of better outcomes proportionate to workload, thoughts, time, nature, assets and capital. Productivity management is a common human experience allusion to which has been maintained in literary heritage. Saadi´s Golesta, as a literary masterpiece contains references to some methods and constituents of productivity. The purpose of this study was to explore productivity constituents in Saadi's Golestan and to examine the extent to which they apply to the status quo in modern management. The research data in this mixed method content analysis qualitative and quantitative study were collected based on review of library documents that were descriptively and analytically reviewed to find out references to constituents of productivity. Further, the extracted constituents were designed as factors in a researcher-made questionnaire the reliability and validity of which was verified statistically. Next, the questionnaire was administered to a research sample of 300 managers that had been randomly recruited from a population of all managers of manufacturing companies in the province of East Azarbaijan based on the Krejcy and Morgan Tables. The results of this study indicate that all factors extracted from Sa'di Golestan's text were regarded by managers of manufacturing companies as factors affecting productivity. The Regression and Correlational analyses also revealed that the selected productivity constituents were positively correlated with productivity. Finally, the Freedman Test revealed that human resources, management of human sources, priority of human knowledge, knowledge and action, learning determination, significance of instruction, economic management, time management and discourse management were respectively identified as the ten significant factors affecting productivity. That is to say, in Saadi Golestan management of human, natural and scientific resources are presented as the elements of productivity.

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