Study of Relationship between Social Capital and Employees' Psychological Empowerment (Case Study: Qom province local governornment office)

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Nowadays, consideration to social capital has found increasing necessity and researches indicate that management and improvement of this capital has prominent advantages in communities and organizations. Organizations can increase the efficiency of their resources toward theire goals by reinforcing social capital. This article has investigated the relationship between social capital and employee psychological empowerment in Qom Province local governornment office. For this porpuse, relationship between social capital dimentions (structural, relational, and cognitive) and employees' psychologi-cal empowerment was studied using spearman’s correlation and regression. The results of the research indicated that there was significant correlation among social capital dimentions (structural, relational and cognitive) and employee psychological empowerment. The Highest correlation was found between relational dimention of social capital and employees' psychological empowerment.A

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