Milad Bakhti; mohsen Torabi; Aryan Gholipour
Volume 21, Issue 66 , January 2012, , Pages 25-46
Abstract
With an emphasis on the role of social capital as one of the most important intangible assets in modern organizations, the present study aims to add to the literature in this area and help managers to create and maintain this in their organizations. Specifically, the study has aimed to develop and fit ...
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With an emphasis on the role of social capital as one of the most important intangible assets in modern organizations, the present study aims to add to the literature in this area and help managers to create and maintain this in their organizations. Specifically, the study has aimed to develop and fit a model that considers the employees’ perceived organizational support as one of the major sources for creating social capital and highlights the importance of organizational citizenship behavior as a mediator. To this end, 192 employees from Telecommunication Infrastructure Company of Iran (TIC) were randomly selected to participate in the study. The applied research methodology is survey design and specifically the research is based on Structural Equation Modeling. The results indicated favorable fit for the model that considers organizational citizenship behavior as a mediator that explains the impact of perceived organizational support in creating social capital. Based on the results of this model, the employees who conceive of their organization as supportive help improve the social capital through displaying citizenship behavior in the organization.
Afifeh Hajjarian; Ali Asghar Pourezzat; Arian Gholipour; Masoud Hajarian
Volume 21, Issue 64 , August 2011, , Pages 19-53
Abstract
Power balance and control is considered as one of the most fundamental issues in the governance literature in which, position of the public as main owners of power is of paramount importance; however, it seems it is losing its importance more and more these days with the growing power ...
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Power balance and control is considered as one of the most fundamental issues in the governance literature in which, position of the public as main owners of power is of paramount importance; however, it seems it is losing its importance more and more these days with the growing power of governments. In the governance systems, power is checked and balanced in two ways: the first way is through interactions among triple powers, and the second is through the centrality of civil society as a link between administration and thepublic. In the present study focusing on the second approach, “checks and balances pyramid” is designed by three constituents including administration, civil society and the public. To clarify the issue and torecognize its triple constituents, 67 key indicators were initially obtained by Delphi technique and then they were judged by the connoisseurs and elites of political science, sociology, law, economy and public management. Finally, the requirements for establishing power balance and control system were studied.
