چکیده:
Human resource managers in the 21st century must manage the social capital of organizations. Creating a competitive environment requires social capital, which is the ability to find, apply, and combine the skills, knowledge, and experiences of individuals within and outside the organization. Obviously, the development of social capital requires factors, one of which is religion and religious culture. The present research examines the relationship between Islamic lifestyle and social capital in the form of a causal model. The research method is descriptive from the correlation branch and based on structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research included the employees of the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, who were selected by random sampling. Information and data of the research were collected using 166 distributed questionnaires. Lisrel software was used to analyze the data for structural equation modeling and path analysis. The results showed that Islamic lifestyle has a positive, direct, and significant effect on social capital.
خلاصه ماشینی:
ir Developing Social Capital in the Light of Islamic Lifestyle Mehdi Afkhami Ardakani Instructor, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran (Received: 2015/08/29; Accepted: 2015/09/18) Abstract Human resource managers in the 21st century must manage the social capital of organizations.
The present research examines the relationship between Islamic lifestyle and social capital in the form of a causal model.
If an organization has a high level of social capital, it will benefit from the following advantages: promoting group activity, fostering trust within the organization, facilitating the process of transferring information and contributing to its creation, risk-taking considering the implementation of teamwork and trust-based relationships, increasing creativity and innovation, reducing costs due to the high level of trust and cooperation, reducing employee turnover, preserving valuable organizational knowledge, greater operational coherence due to organizational stability, and the like (Aybaghi Esfahani, 1392, p.
Therefore, the main question of the present research is whether there is a direct and meaningful relationship between the Islamic lifestyle of employees and their social capital in the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry?
Kaviani, in a research, comprehensively addressed the Islamic lifestyle and considered a ten-component scale for it, including social, ethical, family, health, worship, thought and science, defensive-security, and beliefs and doctrines.
The results of the relationships between the components of the model are presented in Table 2: Islamic lifestyle has a positive and significant impact on social capital, equivalent to 0.
has a positive and significant effect, meaning that having a lifestyle based on Islamic teachings can be a harbinger of promoting and increasing social capital within the organization.
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