The relationship between personal initiative, religious orientation and organizational social capital and workers job performances

Subject Areas : Educational

عباس ابوالقاسمی ¹ ( دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی )
محمد مرادی سروش ² ( دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی )
محمد نریمانی ³ ( دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی )
عادل زاهد ⁴ ( دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی )

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-10-17

Keywords: job performance, organizational social capital, personal initiative, Religious orientation,

Abstract :

The research was performed to determine the relationship between personal initiative, religious orientation, organizational social capital and job performance in the productive centers employees. The research method was correlation, and research statistical population comprised of all productive centers employees in Ardabil city, among them 200 persons were selected through the two-stage cluster random sampling. The measurement instruments were the Personal Initiative Scale (Robitschek, 1998), the Religious Orientation Questionnaire (Allport, 1968), the Organizational Social Capital Scale (Lauderdale, 1999) and the Job Performance Questionnaire (Paterson, 1963). Data were analyzed through Pearson’s correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that personal initiative, organizational social capital and internal religious orientation had a significant positive correlation with the job performance of productive center employees (P 0.05). The results of multiple regression analysis showed that 34.3 percent of job performance variance would be explained through variables of personal initiative, religious orientation and organizational social capital.