Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to determine the mediating role of engagement to work in the impact of employees perceptions of organizational support on employee performance. For this purpose, n=378 teachers who worked in different branches in the province of Tatvan/Bitlis participated in the research voluntarily and they were selected as the sample of the research. Survey method was used for collecting data and convenience sampling method was used. As a result of the data obtained from the applied questionnaires, a correlation analysis was performed in order to determine the relations between the variables. Confirmatory factor analysis for variables and structural equation modeling were used to determine the mediator’s effectiveness. According to the results of the analysis, organizational support was found to be an effective factor on work engagement and employee performance and it was found that perceived organizational support has a partial mediating effect on physical engagement while affecting employee performance.  

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