The Effect of Physical Activity on Resiliency and Productivity and Reducing Staff Absence Based on Public Health of University’s Female Staff

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of 12-week physical activity on resiliency and productivity reducing staff absence based on public health of the female staff of Islamic Azad University. In this paper, we used the pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study designs The method of this research was semi-experimental and carried out having pre-test and post-test with pre –post design with two control and experimental groups. The statistical population of the research consisted of 94 from whom48 female staff of the university out of 94 academic staff, 48 persons were randomly assigned into were randomly selected and randomly assigned in to experimental (n=24) and control groups (n=24). The tools for gathering data were the resiliency inventory of Konor and Davidson (2003) with reliability of r=0.90 and validity of r=0.84. The other questionnaire used for the productivity of workplace was and productivity inventory of Hang (2008), its reliability using Cronbach's alpha was r=0.71 and its validity was r=0.60were used in order to measure the study variables. To test hypotheses independent t test and Mann Whitney test were used at α=0.05 to analyze the data. The results showed indicated that that 12-week physical activity had significant effect on resiliency and productivity of the staff subjects. But the 12-week physical activity has not had a significant while the positive effect on reducing staff absence. Therefore conclusively, it is suggested that planners and managers in the Its highly recommended to recruiter regular physical exercise for all staff in organizations use practical plans in the way to provide physical activities to the staff especially female staff whom suffering from special restrictions, to take advantages of this plan in order to promote for the more staff productivity and resiliency which consequently lead to improve and increase the productivity of in the organizations.