Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Objectives' Transparency and Employees' Performance

Abstract

According to luck’s target setting theory, objective awareness results in employees’ performance improvement. The current study has been conducted to investigate the relationship between transparency of organizational objectives and employees’ performance in Azar Ab firm.. The participants of the study were 327 of Azar Ab managers, employees and other staff who have been chosen randomly. The instruments used were two questionnaires related to transparency of organizational objectives and employees’ performance. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics as well as the deductive statistics were applied. The findings of the study show that transparency of organizational objectives and employees’ performance in Azar Ab firm was below average. The findings of Pearson correlation test also showed that there is a significant relationship between transparency of organizational objectives and employees’ performance. The results of regression analysis pointed out that hierarchy of objectives, objective awareness, and coordination between organizational and individual objectives, tangibility of the objectives had the highest impact on employees’ performance as well.