Presenting a Model of Social Capital in Improving Effective Organizational Structure (case Study: Regional Electricity Companies of Iran)
Subject Areas : governmental management
Omid Karavand
1
,
Vahid Chenari
2
,
Ghanbar Amir nejad
3
1 - Ph.D. candidate, Department of Public Administration, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
2 - Assistant Prof.,Department of Public Administration , Shoushtar Branch , Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran
3 - Associate prof., Department of Public Administration , Shoushtar Branch , Islamic Azad University , Shoushtar, Iran.
Keywords: Social capital, Effective Organizational Structure, Regional Electric Companies of Iran,
Abstract :
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of social capital in improving effective organizational structure. This quantitative applied research employed a descriptive -correlational design.The statistical population of this study consisted of two groups of experts and all employees, including 36 experts and 6584 employees of regional electricity companies in Iran. To answer the research questionnaire, all 36 experts were selected by census method and 363 employees were recruited through stratified random sampling. The data were collected using a questionnaire whose reliability was estimated through Cronbach's alpha. Normality tests and Structural Equation Modeling were conducted via SPSS and PLS softwares to analyze the data. The findings emerging from the study revealed that social capital and its six dimensions, namely cultural, communication, political, economic, cognitive and structural, have a positive significant effect on organizational structure.
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