The relationship between psychological capital and organizational entrepreneurship emphasizing the mediating role of social capital

Subject Areas : business management

zeinab iznloo ¹ , Behrang Esmaeili Shad ²

1 - Department of Educational Sciences, Bojnourd branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Sciences, Bojnourd branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran.

Received: 2017-07-16 Accepted : 2018-10-27 Published : 2017-12-22

Keywords: Organizational Entrepreneurship, psychological capital, Social capital,

Abstract :

 The main purpose of study is “Examining the relationship between psychological capital and organizational entrepreneurship emphasizing the mediating role of social capital”. Study is descriptive – correlational. The study sample included 50 employees of the Department of Social Welfare from the office of Bojnord. Sampling was performed using the whole society. Data are collected by Psychological capital questionnaire Luthans (2007) (alpha = 85/0), organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire Hill (2003) (alpha = 85/0) and social capital questionnaire Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998), (alpha = 93/0). Regression analysis showed that number regression predicting the scores toward the criterion variable (organizational entrepreneurship) are significant. As a result, there is a significant relationship between the psychologically capital and organizational entrepreneurship with a significant level 00/0. Social capital possess the final conditions of terms of entry into the regression equation to explain changes of corporate entrepreneurship; there is a significant relationship between the social capital and organizational entrepreneurship with a significant level 00/0. Scores of predicting variables (psychological capital) toward the dependent variable (social capital) is statistically significant; So that there is a significant relationship between the psychological capital and social capital with a significant level 00/0. The results of the analyzing the mediating role of social capital approved the relationship between the psychological capital and organizational entrepreneurship in the Department of Social Welfare of Bojnord.