The examination ofManagers View to the Role of Social Capital with Organizational Culture Approach Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Path Model

Subject Areas : sociology

Nasser Fegh-hi Farahmand ¹ ( Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran )

Received: 2016-08-09 Accepted : 2016-08-09 Published : 2015-01-21

Keywords: Social capital, Organizational Culture, adaptation culture, responsibility culture, collaborative culture, sustainability culture,

Abstract :

In this article, a research form used to gather the theoretical basics and research literature; In addition, to gather data for testing the research hypotheses, two questionnaires were used which distributed among statistical sample of the investigation after examining the reliability and stability. In order to analyze the data, the Pearson's correlation coefficient test and structural equations also used. The findingssuggests that, social capital with a standardized coefficient of 0.76and12.54 t-value impacts on organizational culture. As well, social capital influences the sustainability culture by a factor of 0.602, on the responsibility culture by a factor of 0.481, and on collaborative culture by a factor of 0.804 and on the adaptation culture by a factor of 0.581. Accordingly, it proposed that managers can strengthen the social capital by giving more authority to middle managers, establishing different work teams, and creating more sense of confidence to the staff and colleagues and as a result, the organizational culture consolidated and the benefits of a strong culture will used.Results obtained for this research have some limitations, including use of questionnaires and due to those in the diagnosis of the actual/available situation, it recommended that in future researches, other tools should usedto collect data in addition to using questionnaires. Another limitation of this study is in its statistical sample; Statistical sample of the present study consists of only276middle managers, which seems low with regard to the number of employees in this job; therefore, more cautious should taken I generalizing the results of the study to the general society.

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