Iman Arjmandrad; Hossein Shokrkon
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Introduction The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship of social capital and quality of work life with job performance and work engagement in employees of an oil and gas company. Method The present study was descriptive-correlational research and is theoretical-applied ...
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Introduction The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship of social capital and quality of work life with job performance and work engagement in employees of an oil and gas company. Method The present study was descriptive-correlational research and is theoretical-applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population included all of the employees in an oil and gas company during 2019-2020. The sample of the study included 250 employees, who selected by simple random sampling method. The Questionnaires of Organizational Social Capital, Work Engagement, Quality of Work Life, and Job Performance were used as research instrument. Canonical correlation and stepwise multiple regression were used for data analysis. Results The results showed that social capital has a positive significant correlation with job performance and work engagement. Also, the quality of work life had a positive significant correlation with job performance and work engagement. The results of the regression analysis showed that social capital and quality of work life predict employees' job performance with R2=0.11. Also, the results showed that social capital and quality of work life can predict the work engagement of employees with R2=0.21. Discussion Based on the results of the study, social capital and quality of work life are correlated with employees' performance and work engagement. Therefore, managers of organization can improve the work engagement and job performance of employees by implementing appropriate interventions to improve the variables of social capital and quality of working life.
Nastaran Pasha; Iraj Shakerinia; Abbas Abolghasemi
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The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of organizational citizenship behaviors, organizational spirituality and social capital with employees' counterproductive behaviors. The statistical population consisted of all employees of Qazvin Haft Almas Manufacturing Factories. The research ...
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The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship of organizational citizenship behaviors, organizational spirituality and social capital with employees' counterproductive behaviors. The statistical population consisted of all employees of Qazvin Haft Almas Manufacturing Factories. The research sample consisted of 276 employees of this population who were selected by convneince method. Instruments included Bennett & Robinson counterproductive, Milliman et al. organizational spirituality, Podsakoff et al. organizational citizenship behavior and Lauderdale social capital questionnaires. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that organizational citizenship behaviors (12.2%), organizational spirituality (1%) and social capital (5%) explained the variance of counterproductive behaviors.
