The Study of The Relationship Between Organizational Social Capital and Job Satisfaction Among the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Employees

The present paper aims to study the status of job satisfaction among the NIGC employees as well as the role of social capital in explaining the satisfaction. The study was a survey research and the data was collected using a questionnaire. The statistical population included all the employees of the NIGC Tehran headquarter (=1000 people), out of which, 290 employees were selected as sample. The independent variable of the study was social capital and the dependent variable was job satisfaction. The results were indicative of a significant relationship between the two variables. Moreover, the most important variables explaining the employees’ status of job satisfaction included participation in organizational decisionmakings, prevailing norms, employees’ trust, and working background.