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

Keshavarzi.A.H., S.A; Hoseini, S.A; Heidari Nasab, L; Amadeh, A.A

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

Authors

S.A Keshavarzi.A.H.

S.A Hoseini

L Heidari Nasab

A.A Amadeh

Abstract

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

Keywords

Employees\' psychological empowerment

social capital

Structural dimention of social capital

Relational dimention of social capital

Cognitive dimention of social capital

Employees\' psychological empowerment