Objective: In today's world, work and life are proceeding in such a way that most people are under great pressure to achieve their professional and personal goals. One of the important principles for maintaining physical and mental health in the workplace as well as achieving productivity is paying attention to employee entertainment methods. Combining work and entertainment not only helps increase productivity but also improves the quality of work life. In fact, entertainment refers to activities in which the audience's attention is engaged and attracted to a topic or action. This can be an activity, a task, or an idea. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying and analyzing the results of entertaining human resource practices on employee productivity.
Method: This study is applied in terms of purpose and survey and exploratory in terms of data collection method, and has a deductive-inductive research philosophy. The statistical population of the research is experts, including senior managers and managers in the human resources field of government organizations, whose sample members were selected using purposive sampling and based on the principle of theoretical saturation. The data collection tool is an interview in the qualitative part and a questionnaire in the quantitative part, and the validity and reliability of the tools were analyzed using content validity and intra-coder reliability for the interview and content validity and test-retest reliability for the questionnaire, respectively. In this research, the content analysis and coding method was used for data analysis in the qualitative part and the fuzzy cognitive map method was used in the quantitative part.
Findings: In this research, the findings of the qualitative part include identifying the types of results of entertaining human resources practices on employee productivity, and the findings of the quantitative part are related to prioritizing these results.
Results: Accordingly, the most important results of entertaining human resources practices on employee productivity are increasing job satisfaction, creating a positive organizational culture, improving professional performance, developing creativity and innovation, commitment and work responsibility.