Relationship Between Organizational Social Capital and Quality of Work-Life of the Employees

Document Type : Research Article (Original Article)

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1 Associate Professor, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

4 PhD candidate of sociology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

The concept of social capital is used as a tool for understanding the quality of work-life and is known as a basis of organizational excellence. The present study attempts to identify the effects of social capital on the quality of work-life of employees. This study is correlation. The population of the study is all staff of Payame Noor University of Mazandaran that among them, 130 people were selected as a stratified sampling. In this survey have been used two social capital questionnaire of Nahapyt and Ghoshal and also questionnaire of Quality of Walton Work-Life. In this study, the data was analyzed with correlation analysis and structural equation model. SPSS and Lisrel Software are used for data analysis. Test results showed that there is a significant positive correlation between the dimensions of social capital (structural, relational and cognitive) with the quality of work life with %99 confidence and error level smaller than 0/01. Also, SEM analysis indicated that the dimensions of social capital have the power to predict the quality of work life.

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History

  • Receive Date: 05 February 2017
  • Revise Date: 01 September 2021
  • Accept Date: 05 February 2017

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