Ali Babaeian; Firouz Zandi
Volume 23, Issue 75 , September 2014, , Pages 97-114
Abstract
According to Social Exchange Theory, Employees participate actively in social interactions and considering their inputs they expect outputs from these interactions. Employees' exchange in organizations, if interpreted justly, leads to understanding organizational trust and organizational support. ...
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According to Social Exchange Theory, Employees participate actively in social interactions and considering their inputs they expect outputs from these interactions. Employees' exchange in organizations, if interpreted justly, leads to understanding organizational trust and organizational support. One of these interactions is employment relationships. Psychological contract is trying to explain such a relationship between employees and the organization. If employees perceive that the organization has made its promises and obligations, Psychological contract will rise in a way to act as a kind of organizational support which can be considered as a buffer against work and environmental stress. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of psychological contract fulfillment considering cognitive differences and perceived organizational support as mediators for job burnout. The research method is functional, descriptive-survey and is specifically Structural Equation Modeling. The population of this research is Imam-Khomeini hospital nurses, 188 of them were chosen using stratified random sampling. The results indicated good fitting proposed model in which perceived organizational support and cognitive characteristics as mediating variables explain the effect of psychological contract fulfillment in burnout reduction. Research results show that the psychological contract fulfillment has a significant negative relationship with burnout, either directly or indirectly. Fulfilling psychological contract reduces nurses' job burnout and leads to an increase in positive affectivity and perceived organizational support and to reduce negative affectivity among nurses.
Behrouz rezaeemanesh; Rahil adel; Davud bahrami; Firouz zand
Volume 21, Issue 69 , January 2013, , Pages 151-170
Abstract
Human resource capitals are considered as one of the most important resources for small enterprises. Considering the nature of these organizations, in the current trade world, social capital is an assuring criterion for organizational success. Due to the low number of employees in small enterprises, ...
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Human resource capitals are considered as one of the most important resources for small enterprises. Considering the nature of these organizations, in the current trade world, social capital is an assuring criterion for organizational success. Due to the low number of employees in small enterprises, the leader has a more dynamic role in organizational processes and can lead the whole organization in to optimized usage of human resource. Moreover, by increasing effective communications, the leader can initiate and increase social capital. The role of transformational leadership style to generate social capital in small enterprises is discussed in this article. The population of this research is knowledge - base organizations in the 6th district of Tehran which are selected randomly. The measurement tool is a questionnaire distributed among 109 employees in 28 enterprises. Descriptive factor analysis is used To examine transformational leadership questionnaire's reliability, and 4 factors including inspiring communication, rational persuasion, supportive leadership- personal recognition and vision are identified. The results of this research which has been done on the individual level show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between inspiring communication, rational persuasion, supportive leadership - personal recognition with social capital. Spearman relationship test also shows that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between transformational leadership and social capital. Then the discussion and conclusions based on these findings are discussed.
